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On 9/26/2019 10:50 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> As a simple test example, consider:
>>
>> /bin/ssh-agent /bin/sleep 10
>>
>> While the sleep is still running, ps shows:
>>
>>         PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID   TTY         UID    STIME COMMAND
>>        1694    1693    1694       1576  ?          22534 00:01:10 /usr/bin/ssh-agent
>>        1653       1    1653      11740  cons1      22534 00:00:37 /usr/bin/bash
>>        1693    1653    1693       1552  cons1      22534 00:01:10 /usr/bin/sleep
>>
>> One oddity is that ssh-agent is listed as a subprocess of sleep
> ...but this isn't a bug.  ssh-agent forks, and then the parent execs the command.

With the salient difference presumably being that the exec is done in 
the parent instead of the child as usual?


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