Re: netbsd-4 (and -current) - ps acting funny ?

kardelNetBSD.org (Frank Kardel) writes:

>Sensible time output seem state dependent. Runnanble or
Stopped
>processes show time value that match my expectations
more.

The p_stat of a sleeping process is seen as SDYING (3)
because
the kvm interface overwrites the value with l_stat ==
LSSLEEP (3).

A 'dying' process has no valid cputime, thus ps prints 0.

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