Multiple cvs/git mirror tasks?

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> meyering wrote:
>>
>>> [...] Any idea how we'd get three of each, with each triple starting
>>> at the same minute?
>>
>> There appeared to be a bunch of crond's running for some reason;
>> stopped all but one.
>
> Thanks.  I've killed the binutils-related processes and restarted
> one manually.

How strange.
The run I just started via "bash -x ~/bin/mirror-sw binutils" is now
showing up in ps auxww output as three different processes:

    meyering 32694  0.0  0.0  6352 1020 pts/0    S+   16:05   0:00 \
      bash -x /home/meyering/bin/mirror-sw binutils
    meyering 32704  0.0  0.0  6352  504 pts/0    S+   16:05   0:00 \
      bash -x /home/meyering/bin/mirror-sw binutils
    meyering 32705  0.0  0.0  6352  560 pts/0    S+   16:05   0:00 \
      bash -x /home/meyering/bin/mirror-sw binutils

How strange.
Should there still be this many crond processes?

    $ ps auxww|grep -c '^root.*crond'
    6