What is going on with ash / sh

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org> wrote:
>> Hackers
>>  What is going on here, if I run the following shell script, what is
>> the expected output . The script is named xxx
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep xxx
>>
>> Here is what I see
>>
>>
>>  # sh xxx
>> 88318  p0  S+     0:00.00 sh xxx
>> 88320  p0  R+     0:00.00 sh xxx
>> 88321  p0  R+     0:00.00 sh xxx
>
>    No idea. jobs isn't a shell builtin so you can't verify what jobs
> are currently running via the shell if there are any. What version of
> FreeBSD are you using and what do your $ENV and .profile files look
> like?

Also, psauxww | grep -v grep | grep xxx would help. I would wait for a
reply from Jilles, because it might be creating a subshell for each
instance.
-Garrett