Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/06/06/18:45:01
> I've stumbled across some peculiar behaviour for top. I've got
> the following
> script (vping) that I use to keep a VPN connection alive:
> #!/bin/sh
> while true;
> do
> ping -n 1 remoteMachine >/dev/null
> sleep 60
> done
>
> I typically run this as a background task (vping &), then telnet to
> remoteMachine.
>
> Now when I quit telnet, then exit the shell (vping was run from),
> the shell
> stays around. My script has a stdout handle, I suppose. That's OK, I can
> close the window with the mouse, and then vping dies. Seems
> normal. But if I
> leave the shell open after typing exit, then run top in another shell, it
> clears the screen, shows exactly one line of output (in this
> specific case):
> 15:23:03 up 8:00, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> and locks up. Control C does not regain shell control.
>
> If I open another shell and use ps to find the process number for
> top, I can
> kill it (kill pid, no explicit signal type).
>
> It doesn't seem to me that my specific script should have
> anything to do with
> how top is behaving, but I supose it is possible. Seems more like top is
> having trouble because the parent process of my script is no longer valid.
> Maybe the parent process is gone, but top uses a windows thing to
> enumerate
> processes, and the open shell still has an entry in that list?
Please post the output of cygcheck.
Chris
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