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From: adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: "ps: seek error" - What does it mean?
Summary: What is causing ps's seek to fail?
Message-ID: <ADNAN.89May15155425@sgtech.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 14:54:25 GMT
Sender: adnan@sgtech.UUCP
Organization: Star Gate Technologies, Inc.
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Our Intel 386 box with Xenix 2.3.1 has a problem, and it is probably
one we have inflicted on ourselves.  After the system is rebooted and
has been running for a while (hours, not days), the ps command stops
working.  For diagnostics, it says
	ps: seek error
Usually I get a few lines of status before it dies.  I believe the
problem is caused by a bug in an in-house terminal driver.  If I could
find out why ps's seek is failing, I may be able to fix the driver.
However, we don't have source code for ps, so I have no idea what in
the process table is sending lseek (I assume it is lseek) off into the
weeds.  Maybe somebody could tell me what seeks ps does.

Thanks,
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Adnan Yaqub
Star Gate Technologies, 29300 Aurora Rd., Solon, OH, USA, +1 216 349 1860
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