[plug] funny process name

Stephen Boak sboak at westnet.com.au
Tue Sep 30 12:38:47 WST 2003


>Dunno if this will work, but a
>
>'cat /proc/2551/cmdline' might be worth it... 
>
min:~# cat /proc/2551/cmdline
-:0

Ooh look, there's lots more files under /proc/2551, I wonder what
that status file says...

min:~# cat /proc/2551/status
Name:   kdm
State:  S (sleeping)
Tgid:   2551
Pid:    2551
PPid:   2533
etc...

Now I know what all those numbered directories under /proc are for!

Thanks

Steve



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