Parallels using bash inappropriately in Catalina?

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by ylluminate, Jan 6, 2020.

  1. ylluminate

    ylluminate Member

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    I've found an odd issue that appears to stem from Parallels inappropriately using bash.

    There are a large number of occurrences of zero-byte sh-thd-* files in /private/var/tmp. After "upgrading" to macOS 10.15.2, it appears as though something is generating these files (such as `sh-thd-8993079368706695386`) within my `/private/var/tmp` folder.

    From doing a little searching, it appears that these are coming from `bash` and that Parallels is the process that's spawning these instances.

    For example, `sudo fs_usage | grep thd` shows that `bash is indeed spawning these, but I'm using `ZSH` for my general shell usage, so something else had to be spawning `bash` which is then subsequently spawning these. I found that only two things were spawning `bash`: 1) Parallels & 2) `com.amazon.sendtokindle.launcher`. After disabling `com.amazon.sendtokindle.launcher` this mess kept on occurring.

    This, therefore, leads me to see and understand that Parallels is not only spawning bash very rapidly and continually, but it is leaving a lot of trash files behind that were not there in macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave).
     

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