NAME

ps − process (thread) status

SYNOPSIS

bind ’#p’ /prog

ps

DESCRIPTION

Ps prints to the standard output information about all current Inferno processes.  It looks in /prog for process status files; normally that requires that the prog(3) device has previously been bound there (as shown above), but it is also possible to import /prog from a remote machine. 

Each line of information printed consists of six columns: the process id, the process group id, the owner of the process, the run state of the process, the amount of memory used by the process, and the name of the module containing the currently running function. 

FILES

/prog/*/status

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/ps.b

SEE ALSO

kill(1), stack(1), wm-deb(1), wm/task and wm/memory in wm-misc(1), prog(3)

BUGS

The amount reported as “memory used” does not accurately reflect the amount of memory referred to by the process, because the heap is shared.