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From: "Andrew M. Inggs" <aminggs AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: extraneous 'I' in ps output
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:56:22 -0000
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"J.D. Laub" <cygwin AT laubster DOT org> wrote in message
news:<20030204154222 DOT GA3915 AT aberdeen DOT fpcc DOT net>...
> Here's a simple test case that shows the behavior I'm seeing:
> $ dummy=`ps > /tmp/foo`
> $ cat /tmp/foo
>       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
> I    1268       1    1268       1268  con 12917 07:42:04 /usr/bin/bash
>      1388    1268    1268       1388  con 12917 07:42:19 /usr/bin/bash
>      1408    1388    1408       1332  con 12917 07:42:20 /usr/bin/ps
>
> Anytime ps is called from command substitution, an 'I' gets
> prepended to the line for the top shell.
>
I see this too (cygwin-1.3.19-1).

> ps isn't in its own package, and I can't find docs on where to
> look to find out in which package it was delivered.

I can help you there, try <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.  It
helps to narrow things down if you give a bit more than just
the filename, e.g., usr/bin/ps (note: no leading / though).
From here you'll see ps is in the cygwin package.

-- Andrew




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