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Asked: 2026-05-15T07:17:08+00:00

I need explain about the four field (4 or 0 ) of ps -ef

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I need explain about the four field (4 or 0 ) of ps -ef command , what the meaning of this number
THX yael

root 27116 27112 4 15:25 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -qsRw -m1 monitohhhhhhhr /var

root 29017 27113 0 15:25 pts/0 00:00:00 grep qsRw -m1

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  1. Editorial Team

    They should be the process flags. From this page (the ps man page):

    The sum of these values is displayed in the "F" column, which is provided by
the flags output specifier.
1    forked but didn't exec
4    used super-user privileges

    zero, I guess, would be a normal process.

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