> I am wondering, what it means when a process shows up with brackets
> around its name when I call "ps ax". For example, the sshd here:
>
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> [snip those procs]
>   170 ?        SW     0:01 [sshd]
> [snip those procs]

these are processes that have no resident pages, see man page of 
proc and ps for more information.

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saisanthosh

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