The character info returned looks also strange. Finally a bit ps output:

   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI      VSZ    RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT        
TIME COMMAND
   501   839   816   0  31  0   113432  43980 -      S     ??     
9:37.04 /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.0.60 -geometry 100x57+666+136
   501  4017   882   0  30  0   121684  42144 -      R     p7     
1:25.70 src/emacs -Q

The GNU Emacs with PID 839 is running since a few days, the other  
since a few minutes ...

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Greetings

   Pete

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taketh away.