[Gllug] System Map

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 18 23:12:24 UTC 2002


On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, tet at accucard.com stipulated:
> ps only uses this for the largely undocumented WCHAN field, so unless

POSIX defines it fairly clearly (well, a lot more clearly than the
manpage does):

,----
|    WCHAN  (l)    The event for which the process is waiting or
|                  sleeping; if blank, the process is running. 
`----

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                                        -- 1i, personal communication


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