Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: > On Dec 25, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> > wrote: > >> What does that mean? >> > > TRACE: pid 17502: mark_dead_jobs_as_notified: ndeadproc (0) != js.c_reaped > (14) > > It's a debugging/informational message. ndeadproc is a count of the > number of dead child processes in the current jobs list. c_reaped is the > total number of dead child processes the shell has reaped. If they are > different, I either did not catch some reaped children, we have dead > children that were not part of jobs, or we've walked the list before.
I see that quite often in some more complicated shell scripts, with increasing values for js.c_reaped. It may have to do with the use of process substitution. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
