From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267509AbUGWDES (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:04:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267511AbUGWDES (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:04:18 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:35238 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267509AbUGWDER (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:04:17 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Interesting race condition... Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:04:46 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407222204.46799.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I just saw a funky thing. Here's the cut and past from the xterm... [root@(none) root]# ps ax | grep hack 9964 pts/1 R 0:00 grep hack HOSTNAME= SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm HISTSIZE=1000 USER=root LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz= [root@(none) root]# ps ax | grep hack 9966 pts/1 S 0:00 grep hack Seems like some kind of race condition, dunno if it's in Fedore Core 1's ps or the 2.6.7 kernel or what... Rob -- www.linucon.org: Linux Expo and Science Fiction Convention October 8-10, 2004 in Austin Texas. (I'm the con chair.)