Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ps command
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:49:46
Message-Id: 200807241251.13515.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ps command by "b.n."
1 On Thursday 24 July 2008, 12:41, b.n. wrote:
2
3 > > S means sleeping
4 > > R means running or runnable
5 > >
6 > > s means the process is a session leader
7 > > + means the process is running in the foreground
8 >
9 > I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance.
10 >
11 > What does it mean a process is "sleeping", technically?
12
13 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_states