The one response that I got was that these processes may be in kernel mode.
That fits with what I'm seeing, where a process is waiting uninterruptable.
It's posted a syscall to the kernel and never gets back.
At issue is a problem shutting down Oracle Apps 11i + various patches when
user's are connected or concurrent manager jobs are running. The processes
go U-state and/or defunct and I end up doing a shutdown abort on the
database and rebooting.
-----Original Message-----
From: Davis, Alan 
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:59 AM
To: Tru64 Unix Mangler's List (E-mail)
Subject: bracketed process commands
What do the brackets in a ps like this one signify?
appprod   10485      1  0.0 06:11:04 ??           0:00.02 sh
appprod   10512  10485  0.0 06:11:04 ??           0:03.55 FNDLIBR
appprod   10544      1  0.0 06:11:05 ??           0:01.95 [d2lc60]
oraprod   10595      1  0.0 06:11:05 ??           0:09.71 oracleprod
(LOCAL=NO)
appprod   10596      1  0.0 06:11:05 ??           0:00.16 d2ls60 7027 7028
appprod   10682      1  0.0 06:11:06 ??           0:00.04 [f60srvm]
Alan Davis
davis_at_tessco.com
Received on Mon Oct 28 2002 - 12:32:56 NZDT