Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, brook(at)trillium(dot)NMSU(dot)Edu, jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items
Date: 1998-10-29 07:07:59
Message-ID: 199810290707.CAA12034@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Doesn't work under Solaris, but, then again, neither does sendamil's, so
> > > that isn't a shock :)
> >
> > Man, if sendmail's doesn't work, that is really broken.
>
> If you want strange, here is the output from the UnixWare 7 ps command with
> some different options:
>
> $ ps -ef | fgrep post
> pgsql 10775 1 TS 80 0 01:34:12 ? 0:00 postmaster -S -i -o -F
> pgsql 10869 10775 TS 80 0 01:45:30 ? 0:00 postmaster -S -i -o -F
>
> $ ps -e | fgrep post
> 10775 TS 80 ? 0:00 postgres
> 10869 TS 80 ? 0:00 postgres
>
> Notice that the PIDs are the same even if the program name is different
> depending on the use of the 'f' option.

Wow, that really is strange. Seems like with the -f, it looks in one
place, as though it knows the child did not exec, so they params must be
the same, while with no -f, it looks in the proper area. The really
weird thing is that even the postmaster is called postgres. That is
bizarre.

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