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Re: Process names

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On 2014-12-24, Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> wrote:
> In article <barmar-D69A8C.11160223122014@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> You could use "top", which is the Terminal command that Process Viewer 
>> is similar to.
>
> I used "top -l2000" and piped the ouput to a text file while watching
> Process Viewer for a weird process name. Once one appeared I clicked on
> it to get the ID number. I waited a few more Process Viewer updates and
> then stopped the Terminal "top" command.
>
> Performing a Find in the text file doesn't find the ID number for the
> weird process name from Process Viewer. I tried a few weird processes,
> but none turn up in the "top" command's output.
>
> Stranger and stranger.

This is a very old version of Mac OS X, right? It's quite possible
you're just seeing a bug in Process Viewer that causes it to show
processes that aren't actually there.

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