On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:43, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > Hi List! > > I'm wondering why some cmdline files are empty. As shown in the man page > for "proc" this file is empty when the process is swapped out or the > process is zombie. > > When I cat the /proc/5/cmdline I read 0 chars, but the ps command shows > this: > > root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug07 0:00 [kthread]. > > The "S" state code indicates that the process is sleeping, but is it > swapped out? > > Am I missing something? That is a kernel thread. They won't have a command line. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
