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 :)
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Frode Nordahl <froden@bigblue.no>