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- From: ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: fstat dead under 0.99.1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.140401.2797@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 09:04:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: drycas.1992Dec26.140401.2797
- References: <1992Dec22.165926.10582@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Dec23.002229.21267@uc.msc.edu>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- In article <1992Dec23.002229.21267@uc.msc.edu>, mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) writes:
- > The Wyvern (wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
- > : The fstat/fuser programs from the ps package seem to be broken under
- > : 0.99.1 - an fstat gives this:
- > : USER COMMAND PID FD DEV INUM SZ|DV MODE NAME
- > :
- > : and that's it. All the other programs in the package seem to work
- > : without any problems. At first I thought that ps and family
- > : might just need to be recompiled, as is the case so often, but
- > : recompilation didn't seem to produce any results.
- > : Anyone else having this problem?
- >
- > Same problem here, all other things work (maybe not fuser, but then again
- > I have never had a need for it).
- >
- > Mike
-
- Count me in for this problem too. I never even thought to test fstat last night
- after I built the new kernel, but I tried it just now on another console and
- sure enough, I get the same results.
-
- I've noticed one other peculiarity that has to do with ps. Once in a while, the
- command line arguments for one or two processes will get scrambled. I realize
- that processes that are swapped out get their arguments replaced with their
- command name (i.e. /usr/etc/inet/inetd becomes just (inetd)) but this is
- different. What I see is a few random characters where the args should be.
- One of them doesn't have any arguments at all. Note that this only happens
- periodically and I'm at a loss to determine what sets it off. This little
- glitch popped up right after I upgraded from .98 pl5 to .99 and it seems
- to have carried over to .99 pl1. Anybody else notice this or am I just special?
-
- -Bill
-
- My stuff:
- 16Mhz 386SX (No coprocessor)
- 40 Mbytes RAM
- 42 Mbyte Seagate ST351A/X IDE drive (38 megs data, 4 megs swap)
- 1990 AMI BIOS
-