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diff --git a/procps/ps.posix b/procps/ps.posix new file mode 100644 index 000000000..57f4fa8af --- /dev/null +++ b/procps/ps.posix @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +This is what POSIX 2003 says about ps: + +By default, ps shall select all processes with the same effective user +ID as the current user and the same controlling terminal as the invoker + +ps [-aA][-defl][-G grouplist][-o format]...[-p proclist][-t termlist] +[-U userlist][-g grouplist][-n namelist][-u userlist] + +-a Write information for all processes associated with terminals. + Implementations may omit session leaders from this list. + +-A Write information for all processes. + +-d Write information for all processes, except session leaders. + +-e Write information for all processes. (Equivalent to -A.) + +-f Generate a full listing. (See the STDOUT section for the con- + tents of a full listing.) + +-g grouplist + Write information for processes whose session leaders are given + in grouplist. The application shall ensure that the grouplist is + a single argument in the form of a <blank> or comma-separated + list. + +-G grouplist + Write information for processes whose real group ID numbers are + given in grouplist. The application shall ensure that the grou- + plist is a single argument in the form of a <blank> or comma- + separated list. + +-l Generate a long listing. (See STDOUT for the contents of a long + listing.) + +-n namelist + Specify the name of an alternative system namelist file in place + of the default. The name of the default file and the format of a + namelist file are unspecified. + +-o format + Write information according to the format specification given in + format. Multiple -o options can be specified; the format speci- + fication shall be interpreted as the <space>-separated concate- + nation of all the format option-arguments. + +-p proclist + Write information for processes whose process ID numbers are + given in proclist. The application shall ensure that the pro- + clist is a single argument in the form of a <blank> or comma- + separated list. + +-t termlist + Write information for processes associated with terminals given + in termlist. The application shall ensure that the termlist is a + single argument in the form of a <blank> or comma-separated + list. Terminal identifiers shall be given in an implementation- + defined format. On XSI-conformant systems, they shall be + given in one of two forms: the device's filename (for example, + tty04) or, if the device's filename starts with tty, just the + identifier following the characters tty (for example, "04" ). + +-u userlist + Write information for processes whose user ID numbers or login + names are given in userlist. The application shall ensure that + the userlist is a single argument in the form of a <blank> or + comma-separated list. In the listing, the numerical user ID + shall be written unless the -f option is used, in which case the + login name shall be written. + +-U userlist + Write information for processes whose real user ID numbers or + login names are given in userlist. The application shall ensure + that the userlist is a single argument in the form of a <blank> + or comma-separated list. + +With the exception of -o format, all of the options shown are used to +select processes. If any are specified, the default list shall be +ignored and ps shall select the processes represented by the inclusive +OR of all the selection-criteria options. + +The -o option allows the output format to be specified under user con- +trol. + +The application shall ensure that the format specification is a list of +names presented as a single argument, <blank> or comma-separated. Each +variable has a default header. The default header can be overridden by +appending an equals sign and the new text of the header. The rest of +the characters in the argument shall be used as the header text. The +fields specified shall be written in the order specified on the command +line, and should be arranged in columns in the output. The field widths +shall be selected by the system to be at least as wide as the header +text (default or overridden value). If the header text is null, such as +-o user=, the field width shall be at least as wide as the default +header text. If all header text fields are null, no header line shall +be written. + +ruser The real user ID of the process. This shall be the textual user + ID, if it can be obtained and the field width permits, or a dec- + imal representation otherwise. + +user The effective user ID of the process. This shall be the textual + user ID, if it can be obtained and the field width permits, or a + decimal representation otherwise. + +rgroup The real group ID of the process. This shall be the textual + group ID, if it can be obtained and the field width permits, or + a decimal representation otherwise. + +group The effective group ID of the process. This shall be the textual + group ID, if it can be obtained and the field width permits, or + a decimal representation otherwise. + +pid The decimal value of the process ID. + +ppid The decimal value of the parent process ID. + +pgid The decimal value of the process group ID. + +pcpu The ratio of CPU time used recently to CPU time available in the + same period, expressed as a percentage. The meaning of + "recently" in this context is unspecified. The CPU time avail- + able is determined in an unspecified manner. + +vsz The size of the process in (virtual) memory in 1024 byte units + as a decimal integer. + +nice The decimal value of the nice value of the process; see nice() . + +etime In the POSIX locale, the elapsed time since the process was + started, in the form: [[dd-]hh:]mm:ss + +time In the POSIX locale, the cumulative CPU time of the process in + the form: [dd-]hh:mm:ss + +tty The name of the controlling terminal of the process (if any) in + the same format used by the who utility. + +comm The name of the command being executed ( argv[0] value) as a + string. + +args The command with all its arguments as a string. The implementa- + tion may truncate this value to the field width; it is implemen- + tation-defined whether any further truncation occurs. It is + unspecified whether the string represented is a version of the + argument list as it was passed to the command when it started, + or is a version of the arguments as they may have been modified + by the application. Applications cannot depend on being able to + modify their argument list and having that modification be + reflected in the output of ps. + +Any field need not be meaningful in all implementations. In such a case +a hyphen ( '-' ) should be output in place of the field value. + +Only comm and args shall be allowed to contain <blank>s; all others +shall not. + +The following table specifies the default header to be used in the +POSIX locale corresponding to each format specifier. + + Format Specifier Default Header Format Specifier Default Header + args COMMAND ppid PPID + comm COMMAND rgroup RGROUP + etime ELAPSED ruser RUSER + group GROUP time TIME + nice NI tty TT + pcpu %CPU user USER + pgid PGID vsz VSZ + pid PID + +There is no special quoting mechanism for header text. The header text +is the rest of the argument. If multiple header changes are needed, +multiple -o options can be used, such as: + + ps -o "user=User Name" -o pid=Process\ ID |