[BusyBox 0005034]: PS: Commandline options to PS cause major problems from scripts

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=5034 
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Reported By:                path0s
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   5034
Category:                   Standards Compliance
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             09-17-2008 12:28 PDT
Last Modified:              09-17-2008 12:28 PDT
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Summary:                    PS: Commandline options to PS cause major problems
from scripts
Description: 
When existing scripts pass commandline options to PS it causes major
problems for those scripts. A lot of scripts use switches such as -e and
-aux to figure out what processes are running by whom in order to check to
see if things are running and to control those processes.

If the real functionality of the standard switches to PS can't be used in
busybox, at least make busybox ignore the switches and just output the
same info it does normally without throwing the illegal option.
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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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09-17-08 12:28  path0s         New Issue                                    
09-17-08 12:28  path0s         Status                   new => assigned     
09-17-08 12:28  path0s         Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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