ps does not show all the processes ?

[Gael Mulat]

Hi,

I've noticed that ps -aux does not show all the processes that we can see with Task Manager. I can imagine that we cannot see some completely native processes, but it is also the case for some processes launched via cygwin !

Is there a reason for that behaviour ? Is there a workaround ?


I'm on W2k, Cygwin 1.3.17.

Here are some precisions about my situation:
A few days ago, I posted about the /bin/rm -rf problem with locked files that makes the rm take 100% of the CPU. As far as I can see, things are happening like:
- a first process works in a directory
- I loose the contact with that process (mostly because something was wrong), but it is still alive
- a second process (second execution of my tool) tries to remove the directory with /bin/rm -rf and goes into an infinite loop, taking 100% of CPU
- I can't even kill the first process as I cannot see it with ps !
Note: I use to connect to the machine with sshd, so I cannot launch Task Manager...

I have replaced all my rm -rf with chmod -Rf +w and rm -r, but it does not fix my problem as I can no more work on the same directory: it is locked :-(

Hints are welcome...

Gael.



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