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Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kaushal Shriyan 
> <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com <mailto:kaushalshriyan@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     # ps auxw | egrep "USER|rsync"
> 
>     root      5301  0.0  0.0  10036  1280 ?        Ss   01:13
>     root      5306  0.2  0.1  56212 31912 pts/0    S+   01:14
>     root      5307  0.0  0.1  38052 29708 pts/0    S+   01:14
>     root      5308  0.2  0.1  38312 29672 pts/0    S+   01:18
>     root      5473  0.0  0.0   2660   592 ttyS1    R+
> 
>     what does Ss and S+ and R+ mean in stat column in ps command
> 
> 
> man ps, section "PROCESS STATE CODES"
> 
> Briefly,
> 
> S means sleeping
> R means running or runnable
> 
> s means the process is a session leader
> + means the process is running in the foreground

I jump here to relief my everlasting UNIX ignorance.

What does it mean a process is "sleeping", technically?

m.