[Cobalt-developers] The ps command in ProcessKiller

[Harri <har...@tu...>]

Hi,

I figured out a ps-command that will work with other versions of ps
as well. I tested it on both ps of SunOS 5.8 and 5.9 (as reported by
uname) and GNU procps 3.2.1 and procps 3.1.15 on GNU/Linux.

It is probable that it will work on *BSD too.

The command is
  "/bin/ps -e -o pid,etime,user,args"
  instead of "/bin/ps x -eo '%p %t %U %a --sort user'=20

The -e should include everything "x" includes. The AIX codes have been
replaced with equivalent standard codes (POSIX) and the sorting is
removed since it is not implemented in bsd-like ps.

The sorting wasn't actually taken advantage of anyway.

This doesn't make ProcessKiller platform independent but will allow it
to work on many other Unix-like environments.

If you want to add SunOS as a supported platform for ProcessKiller, the
label returned by getProperty("os.name") is "SunOS".

I hope this will be useful.

Yours,
Harri J=E4rvi