hciprocstatus returns status of processes that don’t exist

[Troy Morton]

QDX 5.4 Rev1

AIX 5.3

I just found something very interesting while creating a script that would automatically do things based on output from the hciprocstatus -p command.

Look at this:

Code:

/>hciprocstatus
Process         State    Message
————— ——– ————————————————–
troy2           dead     Normal exit at Thu Aug 20 08:37:34 2009
troy3           dead     Normal exit at Fri Jul 31 10:27:52 2009
troytest        dead     Normal exit at Fri Aug 21 09:06:23 2009
L13Tvarian_troy dead     Exit time unavailable
troy1           dead     Normal exit at Fri Aug 21 09:06:12 2009
L1Ftds_troy     dead     Exit time unavailable
hsdvim1b@hci (/qdxtest/qdx5.4/integrator/troytest/bin)
/>

So, this is a list of all processes in the current site and their status.  Now lets try to get the status of a process not listed here.

Code:

/>hciprocstatus -p bogusfoobar
Process         State    Message
————— ——– ————————————————–
bogusfoobar     dead     Exit time unavailable
hsdvim1b@hci (/qdxtest/qdx5.4/integrator/troytest/bin)
/>

Just to prove there is no process in my site called bogusfoobar, here is a listing of my /$HCISITE/exec/processes directory…

Code:

/>echo $HCIROOT/$HCISITE
/qdxtest/qdx5.4/integrator/troytest
/>
/>ls -al $HCIROOT/$HCISITE/exec/processes
total 64
drwxrwsr-x   8 hci      staff           512 Aug 21 09:20 .
drwxrwsr-x   7 hci      staff           512 Jul 29 16:36 ..
drwxrwsr-x   2 hci      staff           512 Aug 21 09:19 L13Tvarian_troy
drwxrwsr-x   2 hci      staff           512 Aug 21 09:19 L1Ftds_troy
drwxrwsr-x   2 hci      staff           512 Aug 21 09:06 troy1
drwxrwsr-x   2 hci      staff           512 Aug 20 08:37 troy2
drwxrwsr-x   2 hci      staff           512 Jul 31 10:27 troy3
drwxrwsr-x   2 hci      staff           512 Aug 21 09:06 troytest
hsdvim1b@hci (/qdxtest/qdx5.4/integrator/troytest/bin)
/>

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[Tom Rioux]

Troy,

Just to confirm, I can do the same thing on 5.6.   It must  be something instrinsic to the way hciprocstatus is working.  I guess it figures if the process doesn’t exist, then it must be dead.

Tom

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