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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help- How to delete a corrupted process?
Message-ID: <3481@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Oct 90 17:31:32 GMT
References: <11838@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <4131@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <4131@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>How do I delete a corrupted process with garbage "H&^5$#^*" after I used the 
>>ps -axu command to check on all running processes?

>  BUGS
>       Things can change while ps is running; the picture it  gives
>       is only a close approximation to the current state.

There was also a bug in at least one version of the NFS kernel mods
for BSD that caused ps to print junk process names for certain processes
(maybe #! shell scripts?  I can't remember for sure now).

-- Richard
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