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Re: cygwin 1.3.10: kill gives spurious Not owner
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:11:36PM -0000, Stephen Osborn wrote:
>So the relevant script is now:
>QUOTE
>#!/bin/bash
>
>java -server -classpath
>"./formattest.jar;$MERIDIAN_CLASSPATH" -Dmeridian.home="$MERIDIAN_HOME"
>com.misys.meridian.runtime.server.StartServer formattest -logToScreen
>UNQUOTE
>
>However after all processing has stopped (I have suppressed the kill
>statements) ps yields:
>
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 477 1 477 477 con 1006 15:03:10 /usr/bin/bash
> 457 1 386 380 con 1006 16:53:05 /usr/bin/sh
> 337 457 386 337 con 1006 Jan 1
>/cygdrive/d/jdk1.3/bin/java
> 453 386 386 448 con 1006 16:54:36 /usr/bin/ps
>
>I have scanned all of my scripts and /bin/sh does not appear in any of them.
>
>Any ideas as to how a bash process can appear as a sh process?
Nope.
>From a bash window, I can kill the /bin/sh process (457 above). This does
>not terminate the java process (337 above) that was spawned from the /bin/sh
>process.
Yep, that's a side effect of /bin/sh's use of vfork.
>Also, from a bash window if I try to kill the java process I continue
>to get a Not owner message.
And, I explained why that is the case. java isn't a cygwin process.
cgf
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