Kbase 20747: Why are there Negative PID Numbers on AIX in Promon
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
16/10/2008 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Why are there negative PID numbers within PROMON's "User Control" screen on IBM AIX ?
GOAL:
Negative PID in promon User Control screen
FACT(s) (Environment):
IBM AIX
Progress 7.x
Progress 8.x
Progress 9.0x
FIX:
In Progress Version 7,8 and 9.0x, a negative sign "-" between the
usr and Process ID (PID) columns on the Progress PROMON option 8
shutdown screen can appear on IBM AIX platform. This indicates
the PID as a negative number.
The following example is a screen print:
usr pid time of login user id tty
1 9342 Wed Mar 28 00:49:34 2001 wdog batch
2 37716 Wed Mar 28 00:49:34 2001 biw batch
3 42556 Wed Mar 28 00:49:34 2001 apw batch
4 66850 Wed Mar 28 00:49:34 2001 apw batch
121 8995 Wed Mar 28 09:53:27 2001 pickups pickup3
122 - 5125 Wed Mar 28 09:47:09 2001 pauls tsmith
123 - 7229 Wed Mar 28 09:33:46 2001 ldelve delvecchio
124 - 14178 Wed Mar 28 09:40:48 2001 irms ashton 36
125 20035 Wed Mar 28 09:31:47 2001 Ilona koppany
126 - 12789 Wed Mar 28 09:30:23 2001 Default Nowlen
127 28743 Wed Mar 28 09:33:29 2001 ldelve delvecchio
129 - 23956 Wed Mar 28 09:20:40 2001 job729 ashton tty25
130 - 5232 Wed Mar 28 09:12:56 2001 irms ashton 37
131 5591 Wed Mar 28 09:31:21 2001 Ilona koppany
AIX PIDs are 32 bit and PROMON shows them as signed 16 bit.
Approximately half the values larger than 65536 are shown as a
negative value whenever the 16th bit is set.
This problem does not appear in Progrss version 9.1X.