Re: Module to parse output from Unix ps command?

P9Y::ProcessTable promises "will portably access the process table, no matter what the OS, and normalize its outputs to work similar across all platforms" but I have not idea how well it delivers on those promises. Not sure what motivated the author to pick "P9Y" as the top level name space either...

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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Re^2: Module to parse output from Unix ps command? by DrHyde (Prior) on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:26 UTC
From the documentation: P9Y? Portability. You know, like I18N and L10N.	[reply]
Re^3: Module to parse output from Unix ps command? by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Apr 11, 2013 at 13:03 UTC
Portability. You know, like I18N and L10N. Oh... that's interesting. Totally OT here, but I had an interesting debate with the pumpkins of CPAN when I released RPG::Dice without realizing there was a Games::Dice module. My module does things slightly different than the other so I kept mine. Considering the rest of the family of modules that are undergoing much rewrite and debugging I did not want to have to refactor them as well to use the other module. So I guess we all have different views on name space. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]