Re: extraneous 'I' in ps output (RESOLUTION)

2003-02-04 Thread J.D. Laub
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:42:22AM -0700, J.D. Laub wrote: > PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND > I1268 11268 1268 con 12917 07:42:04 /usr/bin/bash > Anytime ps is called from command substitution, an 'I' gets > prepended to the line for the top she

Re: extraneous 'I' in ps output

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:54:37PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >AFAICT, the I stands for "idle" and this is correct output. > The "I' stands for input and it is correct output. Ah, I should have looked at the source a bit closer :) thx r

Re: extraneous 'I' in ps output

2003-02-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:54:37PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >AFAICT, the I stands for "idle" and this is correct output. The "I' stands for input and it is correct output. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

Re: extraneous 'I' in ps output

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hello all, AFAICT, the I stands for "idle" and this is correct output. In any case, it is the process status (have a look at the source - it is in the cygwin package, under the winsup/utils directory (ps.cc) The ps is not entirely OpenUnix or POSIX compliant (but I'm sure the maintainer (cgf?) wil

Re: extraneous 'I' in ps output

2003-02-04 Thread Andrew M. Inggs
"J.D. Laub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Here's a simple test case that shows the behavior I'm seeing: > $ dummy=`ps > /tmp/foo` > $ cat /tmp/foo > PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND > I1268 11268 1268 con 12917

extraneous 'I' in ps output

2003-02-04 Thread J.D. Laub
Here's a simple test case that shows the behavior I'm seeing: $ dummy=`ps > /tmp/foo` $ cat /tmp/foo PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND I1268 11268 1268 con 12917 07:42:04 /usr/bin/bash 138812681268 1388 con 12917 07:42:19 /usr/b