ps -c num bug or feature ?

[Hans Buurman]

In article <1990Jan15.094339.4254 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>
>In article <1072 at dutrun.UUCP>, hans at duttnph.tudelft.nl (Hans Buurman) writes:
>> 
>> I don't understand the following behaviour of ps (SunOs 4.0.1):
>> 
>> hans55> ps -c 23706
>> ps: cannot open 23706: No such file or directory

>  The manual also says (at the top):
>
>     SYNOPSIS
>          ps [ acegklnstuvwxU# ]
>
>This means that the pid number should be part of the first argument
>passed to ps, not in a second argument.  In other words, you should have typed:
>
>     ps -c23706

Er, yes and no.

You are quite right, ps -c23706 works perfectly.
However, my SunOs 4.0.1 manual says:

SYNOPSIS
     ps [ -acCegklnrStuvwxU ] [ num ]
          [ kernel_name ] [ c_dump_file ] [ swap_file ]

Sun Release 4.0   Last change: 14 January 1988                  1

So obviously, the manual is incorrect.

You go on to explain why exactly we get this error message.
Your explanation is no doubt correct, but again, you quote from
a different manual. Which manual are you using ?

Thanks for the reply,

	Hans

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