ppss hangs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I ran '/home/godofgrunts/Desktop/ppss'  -f ./var.tar -c 'bzip2 '

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected ppss to start but it just hung at

[godofgrunts@Arch-Lappy Desktop]$ '/home/godofgrunts/Desktop/ppss'  -f
./var.tar -c 'bzip2 '
Mar 26 02:28:17:  
Mar 26 02:28:17:  =========================================================
Mar 26 02:28:17:                         |P|P|S|S|                         
Mar 26 02:28:17:  Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script vers. 2.60
Mar 26 02:28:17:  =========================================================
Mar 26 02:28:17:  Hostname:     Arch-Lappy
Mar 26 02:28:17:  ---------------------------------------------------------
Mar 26 02:28:17:  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5250  @ 1.50GHz
Mar 26 02:28:17:  Found 2 logic processors.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.60 on Arch Linux

Please provide any additional information below.
top show that bash is using a whole core and it just sits there until I
kill the process.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Dergottd...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2010 at 6:34

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Here is uname -a 
Linux Arch-Lappy 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 23 12:10:04 EDT 2010 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Original comment by Dergottd...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2010 at 6:53

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The command line command is wrong. Please read the manual and see what kind of 
file the -f argument requires 
(a text file containing a list of items, such as files, thus not the actual 
file on which a command must be run.

Original comment by Louwrentius on 26 Mar 2010 at 10:57

• Changed state: WontFix