Re: after ptrace patch.

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@wirex.com)
Date: 04/04/03

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From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:14:05AM +0000, SB CH wrote:
    > and when I executed 'ps' the result was changed like this.
    > pre)
    > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
    > after)
    > [httpd]
    > what's the reason and what's the difference between them?

    The square brackets are placed around processes that have no userland
    memory in use; either it is a kernel thread, a zombie, or has had all
    its pages swapped to disk or other backing store.

    It isn't related to the ptrace patch. 

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http://sardonix.org/

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