In article <200509161033.aa15294@deepthought.armory.com>, Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com> wrote:

>One reason the `cat` might be better is that you can lard it with extra
>arguments which will show up in `ps -ef`:

I seem to recall that in the past you could do the same thing with `sleep`,
until someone 'fixed' it to complain about the extra argument rather than
ignore it.