PS -W option - why?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:37:13PM -0700, Don Beusee wrote:
>ps -e on Unix returns all processes running on the system.  This command
>doesn't do that under cygwin.  Why should it be necessary to supply -W to
>see all processes running on the system?  This makes it incompatible with
>Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing this will not work the
>same on Cygwin.  Can this be fixed?

ps -e returns all of the cygwin processes running on the system.  There
is nothing to fix.  This is by design.

cgf

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