Lately I've noticed a parameter attached to a lot of my processes that looks 
something like this:

-psn_X_YYYYYY  where X  appears to be a single digit number and the Y is a much 
bigger number.  At first I thought it was a 1's complement number but that 
theory was shot out the door as the number seemed to be growing beyond the 
boundary size I was initially seeing (as I thought it was originally trying to 
tell me something about negative offsets or something).   

I notice it when I do a ps -efwww  and am grepping for something which I then 
pipe into an awk to parse out a process id or something to do further work to 
perhaps do a dtruss or something like that.

Anyways, this is probably a dumb question, but I tried googling and didn't seem 
to find an answer for what it means.  So what does the psn mean and what do x & 
 y mean?

Thanks

GC
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