Quoting Lars Hecking (25-Aug-98 14:03:51):

>> While saying 'ps -j', I get the following (shortened):
>> 
>> USER       PID  PPID  PGID   SESS JOBC STAT TT       TIME COMMAND
>> root       244   241   244 6c0ac0    0 Is+  p0    0:00.35 -csh (tc
>> root       242   233   242 6c02a0    0 Ss   p1    0:00.42 -csh (tc
>> root       220     1   220 6c10c0    0 Is   e5    0:00.58 -tcsh (t

>> 2. What does the shell in brackets mean?

>  The name of the command that was invoked, as opposed to the name it
>  was invoked with.

Sorry, I didn't get this one.

The name in brackets is the name of the command that was invoked. This
would mean that tcsh was invoked 3 times. This semms to be correct.

But what is then the shell just right after the '-' (csh [twice] and
tcsh in my example above)?

In which man pages can I find more about this '-csh (tcsh)' business?

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