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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: ps not reporting all procs?
Date: 15 May 1993 17:47:56 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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When you execute a command like: ps|grep <string>
you should always at least get one line with the grep command
itsself (at least that's what I once learnt). In 386bsd you get
that line randomly: sometimes you gte it and sometimes not.

Bug or normal behaviour(????)

-Guido
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