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- From: lgt1@ohm.york.ac.uk (Laurence Tyler (Guest - CompServ))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: WCHAN numbers in ps - what do they mean?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.131815.6424@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 13:18:15 GMT
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- Can someone explain how to get more information on WCHAN addresses
- as displayed by the 'ps -l' command? I gather they represent system
- events that can be waited for, but there is no indication in human
- terms of what these events might be.
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- Some versions of 'ps' on other systems (eg SunOS) put a mnemonic
- in this field which is far more useful most of the time. Can this be
- done under Irix?
-
- Thanks,
- Laurence Tyler (Systems Group)
- York University Computing Service
-