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

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Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
> 
> 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.

I can't attest to the old 'ps', but proc-ps has no such excuse, as /proc
maintains those states no matter what state the process is in.  It
might be a form of denoting such a state, but you can still look at the
/proc/$PID/environ file, and the environment is readily discernable.  You
can cat it, although the more sophisticated might want to run it through a
split against NULL.  That's how the values are separated.

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