Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 10:42:24 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: rogue tcsh processes, started 31Dec69 :-) Message-ID: <9508251442.AA23490@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950824165759.20365A-100000@alpha.enc.edu> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.950824165759.20365A-100000@alpha.enc.edu>
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<<On Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:03:18 -0400 (EDT), "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@enc.edu> said:
> This is what I saw:
> owensc 13075 0.0 0.0 552 12 p2 RV 31Dec69 0:00.00 -tcsh (tcsh)
> Note the date!!!!! That is NOT in keeping with my system time! :-)
>From ps(1):
V The process is suspended during a vfork.
You caught your shell in the process of starting the command that you
are using to look at the process table. The date is strange because
vfork() is strange; if your shell used fork(2) instead, you would not
see this.
-GAWollman
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