ps problem

[gam]

> Ah, finally one I know.
> nohup-ing ps losses the user information and therefore doesn't
> print processes for you.  If you try nohup ps -u[your login], it will work!

It probably will, but not because of lost user information.  It is
because ps(1) looks at stderr to figure out what the "controlling
terminal" is; nohup redirects stderr to nohup.out, thus there is
no "controlling terminal."  It also does not handle this case
correctly, as it blithely assumes stderr is ALWAYS a terminal.

Your example gives different selection criteria (user id) and thus
works; the default is to select all processes associated with the
current terminal.

(this was a fun problem!).
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