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RE: Corrupt Process Listing
- To: gnuwin32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Ian Collins'" <ian at kiwiplan dot co dot nz>
- Subject: RE: Corrupt Process Listing
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at buggy dot prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:59:37 +0400
Ian Collins wrote:
> I am running a job that executes thousands of processes. It doesn't seem
> to matter whether I run this job interactively or in the background.
> The job is essentially a script with lots of calls to "make". After a
> while, make refuses to start any more processes, just echoing the error
> "waitforjob: no children".
It's a bug of ash - it doesn't handle pids more than 32767. Copy bash to your /bin/sh.
>
> After this happens, the output of ps (the ps with coolview) looks as
> follows,
> (Incidentally, the date is on the PC is correct at, Sun May 10 10:12:36
> 1998).
>
> /usr3/ian: ps
> PID PPID PGID WINPID UID TTY STIME COMMAND
> I 32896 1000 32896 180 500 -1 09:57:02
> e:\usr\local\libexec\in.telnetd
> O 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jan 01
> I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jan 01
> 0 0 0 0 0 2 Jan 01
1. Replace ps.exe with a new one bundled with coolview.
2. Be sure cygwinb19.dll from coolview is the only on your hard disk.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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