Re: pccardd: what is this ?!

[Paulo M C Aragão <yagpaulo-listas@yahoo.com>]

> > I noticed today the following daemons running:
> >
> > UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> > root      1121     1  0 Nov11 ?        00:00:00 [pccardd]
> > root      1123     1  0 Nov11 ?        00:00:00 [pccardd]
> >
> > but can't establish what they are.
> >
> the braces ('[]') mean it's a kernel process  - a module or something like 
> that.

I had searched this at ps(1) man page, but it says there:

"Sometimes the process args will be unavailable; when this happens, ps will 
instead print the executable name in brackets"

which made me think pccardd was an ordinary process.

Thanks for the info, Dick.

Paulo