Dave Steenburgh wrote: > And what is the significance of the duplicated lines that ps showed > me? Each of three processes did indeed have a lock on an output file > from the most recent session, and yet all the information that ps > showed was identical to a previous session.
I started a new session just minutes ago. The process that parses my data and pipes commands to gnuplot happened to have a PID of 5240. ps indicated that PID 5240 was defunct, and all the other information appears the same (though the timestamp is now a date). Although the process was not actually defunct, I killed that session and started a new one. The process with the same name of course has a new PID, but it is /not/ listed as defunct. Whatever is the cause of the first defunct processes, it seems [to me] that the more recent ones have a different cause. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
