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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:01:33 +0100
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On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine.
> Does anyone know what it is, please?
> 
> # ps -e | grep peg
>    816 ?        00:00:00 pegasus
> #
> 
> A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly:
> # ps -e -o pid,args | grep peg
>    816 [pegasus]
> 13927 grep --colour=auto peg
> #
> 
> But as you  can see, no joy. What do the [square brackets] mean, please?

afaik it is a kernel process.