From: DKhosla AT Compaq DOT com (Khosla, Deepak) Subject: RE: ps, test, /dev/null questions 18 Sep 1997 12:58:24 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Thanks for all the ideas. I tried a few: - ps -eAf or any other option does not work. I guess as someone explained, you can only see cygnus processes - not a good port IMHO. Also pview is a grpahical utility AND you have to have the reosurce kit! Anyway, if you have the resource kit, you can use the TLIST command. - Nul: works on NT, I'm not sure why, but if it is a intentional feature and it plans on staying, it would be a good idea to document it. - Sending anything to /dev/null does create a file that size (not good), however if you input from it, you don't get anything (strange but good) - test -w ./DIR/. does just the same - returns false when it shouldn't Regards Deepak Khosla 281-514-9234 Deepak DOT Khosla AT compaq DOT com -----Original Message----- From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com [SMTP:jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 11:44 PM To: Khosla, Deepak; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: ps, test, /dev/null questions use pview (NT resource kit) pview95 (Platform SDK sample applications) wintop (95 only? MS kerneltoys) cygnus ps only shows procs for cygnus processes. (reasonable I think :). /dev/null exists only in the mind of the cygwin.dll (and not always there) try diff -ubB /dev/null file.c (use echo|diff -ubB - file.c or diff -urBbN ../emptydir . ) ..\\NUL (./NUL) exists in every directory on FAT VFAT or NTFS (it's a system device however it's not recognized by cygwin.dll) (see any good dos book whoops I mean dosshell95/NT, er win32? book :) try test -w ./DIR/. && echo itshere (the ending slash messes up stat I think) On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:36:33 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > >Can anyone answer these for me - I've looked through the docs but no >man on ps :-( > >1) ps -ef does not return all the jobs on the system. Is there a way I >can look at all the jobs and not just the children of my session? >2) test -w Dir returns FALSE even though I can write to the directory >DIR >3) I have found through some emails that people use nul: as the >equivalent of /dev/null (in Unix). Is that accurate and corect? Is >that dcumented anywhere? > >Regards > >Deepak Khosla >281-514-9234 >Deepak DOT Khosla AT compaq DOT com > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > (jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com) delete REMOVETHIS from the above to reply Mikey - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".