Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:22:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.31-pre9 + QNX + NoStackExec weirdness |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Andrej Presern wrote:
> Now what I found to be weird here is that when I did this exact > same command before the reboot (when I couldn't login), I got > the 'grep dctrl' command in the listing too.. why is that? One > time I get both commands and the other I get just one? What's > the trick here?
It's a race condition in the interaction between ps and grep. Sometimes grep hasn't started until after ps completes; other times it has.
Nathan Bryant nathan@nbryan71.dorm.usm.maine.edu nbryan71@mail.caps.maine.edu
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