From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 20:30:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45DC106566C for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FFA8FC17 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:30:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so1222425faa.13 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:30:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.61.138 with SMTP id t10mr10767433fah.20.1320265731939; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.96.133 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 13:28:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [216.223.13.130] Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:28:51 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mark Saad To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: What is going on with ash / sh X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:30:21 -0000 Hackers What is going on here, if I run the following shell script, what is the expected output . The script is named xxx #!/bin/sh ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep xxx Here is what I see # sh xxx 88318 p0 S+ 0:00.00 sh xxx 88320 p0 R+ 0:00.00 sh xxx 88321 p0 R+ 0:00.00 sh xxx Can someone explain this ? -- mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org