Switch to parse 'ps wwl' for better compatibility - #23
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The "Berkeley standard" argument has better compatibility than either BSD or GNU standard. The output is unfortunately much more difficult to parse.
On AIX/PASE, this is |
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Arrrrg! Why IBM, why. |
This works around the discrepancy in column naming between different ps implementations.
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OK. How about this. |
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Still not right: The assumption that the column header offsets match the columns is not correct on the AIX |
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What is IBM even doing. I can’t even read that output as a human. |
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The “Berkeley standard’ argument has better compatibility than either BSD or GNU standard.
Fix #21, close #22.
@kadler and @sirn It’d be wonderful if you could test this on your environments to make sure things still work.