| ps, psu \- process status |
| prints information about processes. |
| prints only information about processes started by |
| For each process reported, |
| and command name are printed. |
| State is one of the following: |
| .TP \w'\fLno\ \fIresource\ \ \ 'u |
| Process has exited and is about to have its |
| on the queue of processes ready to be run. |
| waiting on a queue for a resource. |
| waiting for I/O or some other kernel event to wake it up. |
| dead of unnatural causes; lingering |
| so that it can be examined. |
| waiting for another process to stop. |
| waiting for something to do (kernel processes only). |
| paging out some other process. |
| performing the named system call. |
| waiting for more of a critical |
| waiting on the named wait channel |
| also prints, after the system time, the baseline and current priorities of each process. |
| to print the arguments for the process. Newlines in arguments will be translated to spaces for display. |