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RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot


On 26 April 2006 20:21, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:

> In this case, I used the full 20060426 snapshot and generated some stuck
> processes.  The output from 'ps' showed the following:
> 
>       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>      2944       1    1332      29292    ? 78809 13:54:03 /usr/bin/diff
>     32184       1     436       2860    ? 78809 14:00:03 /usr/bin/mv
>      1560       1   28372      29084    ? 78809 14:06:05 /usr/bin/diff
>      9768       1   23420      24436    ? 78809 14:12:04 /usr/bin/diff
> 
> Looking at the Windows Task Manager, those processes were not listed,
> but what I suppose to be their shell processes were:
> 
> Image Name      PID
> bash.exe        2736
> bash.exe        9500
> bash.exe       29048
> bash.exe       30324
> 
> Note that no bash processes were listed by Cygwin under 'ps'.  (Is this
> a clue?)

  Um.  I wonder if those processes are or aren't actually there.

  Isn't there something about bash keeping a pid table of recently-dead
kind-of-zombie processes hanging around for a while?  Do they show up in "ps"?
I have a vague memory but haven't tracked down the thread yet.  EB or CV might
be able to weigh in on this.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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