Re: copying processes

[Athena <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Suraj.co.in wrote:

> hi everyone,
> 
>   Though this isn't a problem, I want to know what happenned?
> 
>    I wrote a script that lists n number of  fortunes matching the
> string.
> 
>      suraj $ search_fortune 10 elephant &
>    [1] search_fortune 10 elephant &
> 
>      suraj $ ps -A
>     blah
>     blah
>     blah
>     1034 search_fortune
>     blah
>     blah
>     1092 search_fortune
> 
>      suraj $
>   My script doesn't call itself anywhere. What's causing this copying of
> processes?
> 
>    -Suraj
       
       Normally bash (or any other shell) forks off to execute each
command. So for every command in your shell script you have a different
pid.
       
- George Samuel

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