Non-existent PPID?
Non-existent PPID?
- Subject: Non-existent PPID?
- From: Paul Ripke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:31:56 +1000
Anyone see a problem here?
stix-pbg3:ksh$ ps alx | egrep 'PID|3978'
UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME
COMMAND
0 3979 3978 0 31 0 14108 336 - S ?? 0:00.02
VirtualPC_Services
stix-pbg3:ksh$ uname -a
Darwin stix-pbg3 6.6 Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Fri Jun 27 00:36:43 EST
2003; stix:BUILD/obj/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
The parent was "killed" via the WindowServer/LoginServer machanism, not
that
that should matter. The only thing to note is that the program is suid
root.
Killing the process leaves it a zombie, and zombies always have a PPID
of 0,
as reported by ps(1).
If I get a chance, I'll see if I can come up with a simpler test case.
Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
-- Koos van den Hout
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