[lug] Re: ps on AS 2.1, 3.0

[Andrew Diederich]

On 4/21/05, Dean Brissinger <Dean.Brissinger at vexcel.com> wrote:
>         The 2.4 and earlier kernels don't support Posix threads. Sure, each
> thread _should_ have the same pid but instead they're actual processes
> with their own.  You can find lots about this behavior on google groups.
> 
>         As for 'ps'...  Some distributions saw fit to "fix" ps, top, and
> friends to display in a Posix-like way.  But they are only hiding what's
> going on under the hood.

Sometimes hiding what's going on under the hood is good.  This has the
side-effect of making most of the "ps ax | grep process" techiniques
for finding PIDs worthless, unless there's an option on ps I'm missing
to ID the parent process for its threads.

I think it's fine and dandy to know how to find out what the threads
are doing, but for most tasks I just don't need to know, and the
output gets in the way.

Does anyone know how to show just the "real" processes?

-- 
Andrew