Re: display ps command line parameters

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Tony Richardson wrote:
> Andy <at> Jet-Net <Andy <at> jet-net.co.uk> writes:
> > In "ps -s" I get something like:
> >
> >  PID  TTY    STIME COMMAND
> > 1234  con 09:00:00 /path/program
> >
> > Is there a way of doing this through ps (or an alternative) in Cygwin?
>
> An alternative would be to parse /proc/PID/cmdline.  Arguments are
> separated by null bytes.

cat /proc/$pid/cmdline | xargs -0 echo

um... and since Cygwin has this information, doesn't this mean that 'ps' 
is missing a feature that is standard to pretty much every other *nix 
implementation of 'ps'? (I don't have a POSIX standard handy, but I 
wonder if this is an unnecessary POSIX violation?)

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