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From: Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Aug 17, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: /proc/pid/cmdline question
To: Jim Bauer <jfbauer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Jim... I've been searching and maybe what I really want is the Name field of the status file, since this field shows the name properly.
Best regards
Best regards
On 8/17/06,
Jim Bauer <jfbauer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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