Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:01:12 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, gad@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgrep strangeness Message-ID: <p060204cbbc8f2cfccb87@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040330090619.GA49822@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040330084711.GA44887@nagual.pp.ru> <20040330090619.GA49822@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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At 7:06 PM +1000 3/30/04, Tim Robbins wrote: >On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:47:11PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > >> See the picture below. Why it print PID found 3 times? >> Is it because too many 'sentinel's in the command line? > > It looks like some analog of 'sort -u' should be performed > > (qsort(3)?) > > >> # pgrep sentinel >> 547 >> 547 >> 547 >> # ps ax | grep sentinel >> 547 ?? Ss 7:48,83 /usr/local/sbin/sentinel -v1 -c >>/usr/local/etc/sentinel > >I think this is the same bug I fixed in killall a while ago -- it >uses KERN_PROC_ALL, which returns an entry for each thread in the >process, instead of KERN_PROC_PROC. I actually asked if I should change that to use KERN_PROC_PROC in some mailing list or another, but I don't think anyone replied. I don't do much of anything with threads, so they're about the same for me. I'll change it to KERN_PROC_PROC. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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