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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: rogue tcsh processes, started 31Dec69 :-)
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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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