'ps' behavoir in Linux - Was - Re: array limits

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:47:04PM -0500, Jerry Rains wrote:
> On Thursday 15 April 2004 09:36, Brian K. White wrote:
> > Give both tables a similar name testz1 testz2.
> > Put a show @ in both tables to cause them to wait for user input.
> > Start up both tables in concurrent sessions.
> > In a 3rd session run:
> > ps -eopid,size,args |grep testz
> >
> > 1st column is the pid, 2nd column is the size in memory, rest of the line
> > is the command line
> 
> This brings up a point I have been meaning to post for a while.  Brians ps 
> command works fine on SCO5.0.5 but on SuSE8.2 
> 
> ps -eo args | grep dclerk   returns
> 
> [dclerk]

IIRC, the brackets mean that the process is swapped out, and ps can't
therefore *get to* it's PCB to find out what arguments were given to
it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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