Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.25+, H06.03+)

User Commands (p - r) ps(1)
T Stopped process
H Halted process
The second character, if any, indicates additional state information:
W Process is swapped out (shows a blank space if the process is loaded, or in core).
> Process has specified a soft limit on memory requirements and is exceeding that limit;
such a process is (necessarily) not swapped.
The third character, if any, indicates whether a process is running with altered processor schedul-
ing priority:
N Process priority is reduced.
< Process priority has been artificially raised.
+ Process is a process group leader with a controlling tty.
Environment Variables
The following environment variables affect the execution of the -ps command:
COLUMNS
Overrides the default horizontal screen size. COLUMNS determines the number of
text columns to display. The output wraps if COLUMNS exceeds the system screen
size.
LANG Provides a default value for internationalization variables that are null. If LANG is
unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-speci
fic default locale
is used. If internationalization variables contain invalid settings, the ps command
behaves as though none of the variables are defined.
LC_ALL
Overrides the values of all other internationalization variables.
LC_CTYPE
Determines the locale for interpreting bytes of text data as characters (for example,
single-byte versus multiple-byte characters in arguments).
LC_MESSAGES
Determines the locale for defining the format and contents of diagnostic messages that
are written to the standard error file and of information messages that are written to the
standard output file.
LC_TIME
Determines the format and contents of the date and time strings that are to be
displayed.
NLSPATH
Determines the location of message catalogs for processing the LC_MESSAGES vari-
able.
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