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What do the [..] mean in 'ps' and how do you create a process like it?

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When running , you get something like: All the daemon processes generally have the brackets around them. What do they mean (if anything)? How do you create a process that appears like this? The reason I ask is we create a system daemon from the rcS (the programme uses fork to create the daemon), bu…

Error Output

root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   00:00   0:00 [kthreadd]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   00:00   0:00 [ksoftir…

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Fix for: What do the [..] mean in 'ps' and how do you create a process like it?

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Square brackets are used for processes that do not have an associated command line (mostly kernel threads and some system services). If I recall correctly, you might be able to achieve the same effect for your process by setting to the empty string.

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