[8130] in Athena Bugs
Multiple copies of dash loading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Sep 8 18:16:35 1991
From: pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 91 18:17:08 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Running on a VAX 3100 (W20-575-94.MIT.EDU), release 7.3M:
> % ps aux | grep dash
> % dash -foo
> dash: no set foo exists
> % dash -bar
> dash: no set bar exists
> % dash -logout
> % ps aux | grep dash
> pshuang 8132 8.3 2.2 252 189 p1 S 0:00 (dash)
> pshuang 8130 0.3 2.1 246 181 p1 S 0:00 (dash)
> pshuang 8128 0.3 2.1 246 181 p1 S 0:00 (dash)
> % dash -menubar
> % ps aux | grep dash
> pshuang 8132 6.2 4.7 425 354 p1 R 0:01 (dash)
> pshuang 8128 0.0 2.2 246 197 p1 S 0:00 (dash)
> pshuang 8130 0.0 2.2 246 197 p1 S 0:00 (dash)
It was my understanding that dash would not load itself into memory
multiple times. Which it seems to be doing successfully if you give it
an option (package name) it understands. But something seems to be
going wrong with error handling when the cmdline cannot be understood.
Signing off,
UNIX:/etc/ping
