[plug] funny process name

Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 30 12:51:48 WST 2003


On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:38:47PM +0800, Stephen Boak wrote:
> 
> >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!

I'm still waiting for
	rm proc/somenumber
to remove a process.

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