Hi all,
I noticed when running “ps -ef” that there are a bunch of processes listed with brackets. ie “[process]”. Some of them appear to be daemons and others look more like kernel modules? I haven’t found a program directly associated with them and was hoping somebody could clarify this for me?
Also, if I run a search of the file system with sudo or as root, there is a directory in my home that returns a permission denied. I understand permissions but shouldn’t operations as root be able to do/access anything on the system?
That directory is most probably .gvfs. There was a thread about it lately. Try the search function to find it. (Well the result was: it is nasty, but forget about it).
And a look at *ps -ef *output reveals that all the …] ones are children of process #2kthreadd. A quick Google reveals that this means “kernel thread daemon”.
I leave it to you to dig deeper.
aha. I’d overlooked the relationship between kthreadd and the others. kthreadd would appear to be the process that manages dynamically loadable kernel modules, or at least various kernel thread as needed. I might not have my terminology straight…
