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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:49:36 +0100
From: Gael Mulat <Gael DOT Mulat AT polyspace DOT com>
Organization: PolySpace Technologies
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Subject: ps does not show all the processes ?
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    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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