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Re: why do I see cat /bin/cat in system monitor when I start some applications?

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alex <alex@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> why do I see "cat /bin/cat" in addition to a new process in system 
> monitor when I start some applications?

Sorry, but what is what you call "system monitor"? You may wonder
but I've never had anything called like that and I'm using Linux
since a quite a long time, so this is a genuine question because
what "cat /bin/cat" means could depends on the what the output
of your "system monitor" tool is and could mean (beside a lot
of other things) that something is applying 'cat' on '/bin/cat'
or it might stand for "'cat' is running and the location of it
in the file system is '/bin/cat'". I definitely wouldn't expect
anyone to call 'cat' on its binary for too many good reasons.

The next question is if this happens with every application
you start or only for a certain subset (and, in that case,
can you detect any patterns)?. I'm asking because e.g. some
scripts may use 'cat' (sometimes for no good reasons;-) and
then 'cat' will, of course, appear in any tool that shows
what's currently running on your machine.

                              Regards, Jens
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why do I see cat /bin/cat in system monitor when I start some applications? alex <alex@localhost.localdomain> - 2012-12-20 00:48 +0400
  Re: why do I see cat /bin/cat in system monitor when I start some applications? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-12-22 00:07 +0000
    Re: why do I see cat /bin/cat in system monitor when I start some applications? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-12-22 00:19 +0000

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