From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 17:15:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA20586 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login.bigblue.no (root@login.bigblue.no [194.19.68.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20579; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eagle.bigblue.no (froden@eagle.bigblue.no [194.19.68.13]) by login.bigblue.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA16481; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 02:13:37 +0200 Message-Id: <199609030013.CAA16481@login.bigblue.no> From: "Frode Nordahl" To: "Gary Palmer" Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 03 Sep 96 02:15:39 +0100 Reply-To: "Frode Nordahl" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Frode Nordahl's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Strange TCSH operation... Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 21:25:34 -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: >Look at the PID's. The tcsh with the funny start time is actually the >tcsh which is about to be turned into the 2nd half of your pipe (the >grep). I am not 100% sure WHY, but something in the fork/exec process >can cause that to happen ... for a VERY brief period, the parent >exists with a funny start time. There must be a race condition or >something. It's not all that important (since it only affects ps >output), so I don't think anyone has spent time looking into why. The >`problem' has been around for a while tho (probably all 2.x releases >have had this). Ok, just wondered if some hacker had installed a trojan horse or something :) --------------------------------- Frode Nordahl