Hi /proc/*/cmdline contains one extra <nul> which makes pgrep,pkill and ps misbehave
on cygwin $ cat /proc/self/cmdline |od -c 0000000 c a t \0 / p r o c / s e l f / c 0000020 m d l i n e \0 \0 0000030 note the terminating <nul><nul> on linux(trustix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/procps$ cat /proc/self/cmdline |od -c 0000000 c a t \0 / p r o c / s e l f / c 0000020 m d l i n e \0 0000027 This diff makes sleep 100& pgrep -fx "sleep 100" #fail #but pgrep -fx "sleep 100 " #works -- Bengt-Arne Fjellner -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
