On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: > I recently ran the ps command and saw an unknown flag, "I", displayed in > column 1. There was no heading above it and the man page wasn't much > help. > > What does this mean? Where can I find documentation on perhaps other > flags? > -- > Ken Shaffer
According to the "ps.cc" source (which, at the moment, seems to be the best documentation for the status column), 'I' means that the process is in a "waiting for TTY input" state. This will apply to all processes that are interactive but not currently active (i.e., foreground). An 'O' in the status column means that the process is in a "waiting to output to a TTY" state, which usually means trouble (TTY is busy, etc). The only other value for the status column is 'S', which stands for stopped (suspended) processes. Man page <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
