What is going on with ash / sh

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 20:37:32 UTC 2011


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?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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