ps weirdness...

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Oct 24 12:37:00 GMT 2013


On 10/24/2013 6:03 AM, Anthony Geoghegan wrote:
> I was intrigued by Jeff's post so I tried a couple of experiments of
> my own and was able to duplicate the same behaviour - including the
> bash process being shown as a Windows process - on my Cygwin
> installation. The only difference was that I was getting Jan 1 instead
> of Dec 31 for the STIME.
>
> FWIW, I'm running 32-bit version of Cygwin on 64-bit Windows 7 and can
> supply the output of cygcheck if it's useful. Also, I started my
> Cygwin shell yesterday so "Oct 23" is the correct STIME for the bash
> and ssh-agent processes.

As for the date issue, what you're seeing is the traditional UNIX/POSIX
start time (the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970).  It's nothing strange.



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Larry

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