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Re: ps axf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Fri Nov 29 06:34:37 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 29 Nov 1996 11:33:14 GMT
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In article <57hv7l$pkt@halon.vggas.com>, dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com says...
>It's kind of longish, but here's the strace output of it:
>The interesting part is near the end of the file, since most everything
>seems to work fine until it starts trying to read some temporary file
>used by vim (why?)
>open("/proc/22601/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
>read(6, "/bin/vi\0/tmp/snd.22505", 2047) = 22
>close(6) = 0
No, it's reading the command line for PID 22601, and that command line
contains { "/bin/vi", "/tmp/snd.2205" }, that is, PID 22601 is a vi
which is editing some outgoing mail for ELM.
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