in the output of ps; wchan is the address of the event flag on which the process is waiting

from the OS X man page: (freebsd is same)
wchan The event (an address in the system) on which a process waits.
When printed numerically, the initial part of the address is
trimmed off and the result is printed in hex, for example,
0x80324000 prints as 324000.


HTH

On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 11:41 AM, Cory Petkovsek wrote:

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:32:53PM -0400, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
What kind of info are you looking for? I found a bunch when I did an advanced Google Search with the word "WCHAN" in the "with all of the words" field and the word "man" in the "without the words" field.

Yes lots of "pages" but I wouldn't call it "info".


What does 'select' mean?   What about unix_stream_data_wait, wait4,
read_chan, nanosleep.  That is what is the process waiting on.
Selecting what? polling what?

unix_stream_data_wait?  Where can I learn about which data stream it is
waiting on?  Will lsof tell me? (I guess I can look there.)

Cory

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