Re: Wierd 'ps ax' output

[Jonathan Matthews <jaycee@jaycee.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:20:38PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Needlessly worried.  16891 is a child of 186; you can tell because the
> process name is in all caps (you could also tell if you did "ps
> fax").
> 
> 16892 is the child of 16891; it's the script listed in
> /etc/cron.d/exim, which runs every 15 minutes.

Thanks!
It was the caps that were bothering me.  I didn't know that
this was a property of child processes in 'ps' ... why is
it that /all/ processes aren't in caps, being the children
of init?  Is it just to differentiate between parent and
child where the child is a clone/fork/whatever of the parent?

jc