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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:06:19 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, gad@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pgrep strangeness
Message-ID:  <20040330090619.GA49822@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040330084711.GA44887@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <20040330084711.GA44887@nagual.pp.ru>

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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.


Tim



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