On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:36 -0400, John Que wrote: > Hello, > > I have a RedHat 9 Linux. > when I run "ps -aux " see many threads in square brackets, > like > [kthread] > [kacpid] > [kblockd/0] > [pdflush] > > There are of course some processes without square brackets like > syslogd,portmap, and more. > > My question is : what is the meaning of the square brackets? Items in the brackets means that the proccesses/threads are parts of the running kernel. (that's the reason we cannot kill them) Stavros > > is that specify that the thread is a kernel thread ? > > Regards, > John > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
