The following reply was made to PR kern/32809; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32809: spurious 'x' flag in ps output
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:13:42 +0100

 No wonder it does happen - fill_kproc2 in init_sysctl.c does
  		ki->p_flag |= l->l_flag;    
 
 but l_flag values conflict with p_flag values. ps should use p_realflag.
 (It seems that there was an effort to keep the flag spaces disjoint, but
 it was abandoned for higher flags.)