[TriLUG] kscand?

[Ken Wahl]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:17:15PM -0400, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> Hello all, quick question about a RedHat 7.2 system (2.4.20-13.7 Kernel).
> I tried searching Redhat.com, Google, the TriLUG archives, as well as the
> man pages and `apropos`, but could not find any information about a
> process that I have running called "kscand".  Can anyone explain what this
> is/does?
> 
> # ps -eaf |grep kscand
> root         6     1  0 May22 ?        00:43:39 [kscand]
> 
> While I'm asking, what do processes contained in square brackets mean
> also?  Some processes appear in these brackets when I run `ps`.
> 
I'm not sure exactly what it does but it is not abnormal..
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-May/msg03083.html

Google searches for kscand turn up mostly posts from the linux kernel
mailing list, which leads me to believe it is a kernel function.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=kscand&btnG=Google+Search
-- 
Ken Wahl  ken at kenwahl.org  http://www.kenwahl.org
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