Corrupt Process Listing

Sun May 10 22:36:00 GMT 1998

I have already copied bash to /bin/sh.
Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:
> > I am running a job that executes thousands of processes. It doesn't seem
> > to matter whether I run this job interactively or in the background.
> > The job is essentially a script with lots of calls to "make". After a
> > while, make refuses to start any more processes, just echoing the error
> > "waitforjob: no children".
>> It's a bug of ash - it doesn't handle pids more than 32767. Copy bash to your /bin/sh.
>> >
> > After this happens, the output of ps (the ps with coolview) looks as
> > follows,
> > (Incidentally, the date is on the PC is correct at, Sun May 10 10:12:36
> > 1998).
> >
> > /usr3/ian: ps
> > PID PPID PGID WINPID UID TTY STIME COMMAND
> > I 32896 1000 32896 180 500 -1 09:57:02
> > e:\usr\local\libexec\in.telnetd
> > O 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jan 01
> > I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jan 01
> > 0 0 0 0 0 2 Jan 01
>> 1. Replace ps.exe with a new one bundled with coolview.
> 2. Be sure cygwinb19.dll from coolview is the only on your hard disk.
>> --
> Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
> Moscow, Russia

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