James Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:

> barun parichha writes:
> > I don't know, why both of them deviate from the basic open source
> > format, which creates extra confusion.
>
> If you're reporting a problem, I suggest filing a bug instead.
>
> As for the variations on process state in 'ps' between OSes, I don't
> see a problem.  There's a lot of alignment between them (in
> particular, at least [STZ] are identical, and [R] is quite similar),
> and in the places where they're not exactly the same, they're
> reflecting differences in the underlying system implementation.
>
> Solaris isn't Linux, so process status on Solaris shouldn't
> necessarily be the same as on Linux, should it?

There was a non-clean statement in barun's mail. "Linux/UNIX" does
not make sense as Solaris _is_ UNIX, but Linux is not.

The ps command is in the POSIX standard but the standard does not
include a defined output format for the WCHAN.

see:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ps.html
Jörg

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