[ale] unknown command

Sean Kilpatrick kilpatms at gmail.com
Wed Oct 2 15:04:45 EDT 2013


Curiouser and curiouser.

I do NOT have a [/run/user] directory, but I do have a ~/.gvfs -- only it 
is empty!

Methinks I really MUST update this FC13 system !  :)

sean

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On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 01:23:23 pm Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 11:46 AM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > CAn anyone explain what is going one here?
> > 
> > I ran <ps aux> and got this oddity:
> > 
> > STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > 
> > S Sep21 0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.89
> > /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
> > 
> > googling explained that gvfs stands for gnome virtual file system.
> > 
> > That's nice, I guess, but my desktop environment is KDE. The
> > directory /org/gtk/exec_spaw does not exist on my box. It's not
> > using any memory or CPU cycles.
> 
> This means that an application using GObject (either a C program, or a
> program written using GObject instrospection bindings) used the GIO
> library to connect to a Web server using the GVFS filesystem wrappers
> at some point.
> 
> The address at the end of the command are, IIRC, D-Bus addresses.
> 
> Depending on the configuration of your system, you'll be able to find
> the directory in ~/.gvfs or in /run/user/${UID}/gvfs, which is where
> the GVFS modules house their virtual filesystem so as to allow common
> UNIX utilities (e.g., cp, cat, mv, ls, rm, and so forth) to work with
> those filesystems, even though they're not filesystems which are
> implemented by the operating system or managed by e.g., mount/umount.
> 
>     --- Mike
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