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What does it mean when a task appears in parentheses in a task listing

Asked by rstaveley in FreeBSD

Tags: what, does, mean

I've ported 3 home-grown daemons from Linux to BSD. They seem to be behaving OK, but I'm puzzled about the task listings.

The daemons are called tomtom, dick and sally. Unlike tomtom or sally, I notice that dick appears in parentheses in the COMMAND field on FreeBSD, but not Linux.

Here is the Linux task listing (filtered to get the relevant parts using awk):
--------8<--------
[rstaveley@linuxserver rstaveley]$ ps aux | awk 'NR == 1||($7=="?"&&(/tomtom/||/dick/||/sally/))'
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
tomtom     742  0.0  2.2 30768 5708 ?        S     2003   0:00 /home/tomtom/bin/
tomtom     746  0.0  0.3  2100  912 ?        S     2003   0:00 /home/tomtom/bin/
sally      764  0.0  0.2  1572  692 ?        S     2003   0:00 /home/sally/bin/s
dick     25366  0.0  0.2  1632  764 ?        S    Jun10   0:00 /home/dick/bin/di
dick     25370  0.0  0.3  1632  780 ?        S    Jun10   0:00 /home/dick/bin/di
--------8<--------

FreeBSD task listing:
--------8<--------
rstaveley@freebsdserver:-$  ps aux | awk 'NR == 1||($7=="??"&&(/tomtom/||/tick/||/sally/))'
USER        PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
dick      16314  0.0  0.2  1108  864  ??  Ss   11:34AM   0:01.56  (dick)
dick      16316  0.0  0.2  1108  876  ??  Ss   11:34AM   0:00.13  (dick)
sally     16318  0.0  0.2  1056  804  ??  Ss   11:34AM   0:01.44 /home/sally/bi
tomtom    16320  0.0  0.3  1600 1324  ??  Ss   11:34AM   0:01.54 /home/tomtom/b
tomtom    16322  0.0  0.3  1604 1348  ??  Ss   11:34AM   0:00.81 /home/tomtom/b
--------8<--------

The daemons are all started in the same way from root, first changing group and user and they use the same code (plagiarised from Stevens) to "go daemon".

What do the parentheses signify?
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