AT&T UNIX™PC Unix System V Users Manual - tenox

PS (l)
PS (l)
WCHAN (1) The event for which the process is waiting or
sleeping; if blank, the process is running.
TTY (all) The controlling terminal for the process.
TIME (all) The cumulative execution time for the process.
CMD (all) The command name; the full command name
and its arguments are printed under the -f
option.
A process that has exited and has a parent, but has not yet been
waited for by the parent, is marked .
Under the -f option, ps tries to determine the command name
and arguments given when the process was created by examining
memory or the swap area. Failing this, the command name, as it
would appear without the -f option, is printed in square brackets.
FILES
/unix
/dev/mem
/dev/swap
/etcjpasswd
/etcjps_data
/dev
SEE ALSO
ki II( 1 ), nice( 1 ) .
system namelist.
memory.
the default swap device.
supplies UID information.
internal data structure.
searched to find terminal ("tty") names.
BUGS
Things can change while ps is running; the picture it gives is only
a close approximation to reality. Some data printed for defunct
processes are irrelevant.
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