Re: completion function name clashes

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:37:30 +0100
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We appear to have two of each of _osc and _ps.
> 
> How should we resolve things for _ps? I would suggest renaming the one
> for postscript files to _postscript but for the fact that it is much
> older.

I don't think renaming it is a problem --- _ps probably makes most
command line users think of the command rather postscript.

> For the ps command, the _ps is Solaris specific. There's not been
> completion for ps before because it is a real mess with BSD and SYSV
> having quite different options and many new systems having hybrids. I
> also have vague memories that there is more than one ps common on Linux
> systems though it appears to be procps everywhere I currently have
> access to.

Unless anyone tries to fix it, I suppose it can stay associated with
Solaris.

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