R: Current process status

ps_status {ps} | R Documentation

## Current process status

### Description

One of the following:

- `"idle"`: Process being created by fork, macOS only.

- `"running"`: Currently runnable on macOS and Windows. Actually running on Linux.

- `"sleeping"` Sleeping on a wait or poll.

- `"disk_sleep"` Uninterruptible sleep, waiting for an I/O operation (Linux only).

- `"stopped"` Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced.

- `"tracing_stop"` Stopped for tracing (Linux only).

- `"zombie"` Zombie. Finished, but parent has not read out the exit status yet.

- `"dead"` Should never be seen (Linux).

- `"wake_kill"` Received fatal signal (Linux only).

- `"waking"` Paging (Linux only, not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel).

### Usage

    ps_status(p)

### Arguments

`p` | Process handle.

### Details

Works for zombie processes.

### Value

Character scalar.

### Examples

    p <- ps_handle()
    p
    ps_status(p)

### See Also

Other process handle functions: `ps_children`, `ps_cmdline`, `ps_cpu_times`, `ps_create_time`, `ps_cwd`, `ps_environ`, `ps_exe`, `ps_handle`, `ps_interrupt`, `ps_is_running`, `ps_kill`, `ps_memory_info`, `ps_name`, `ps_num_fds`, `ps_num_threads`, `ps_open_files`, `ps_pid`, `ps_ppid`, `ps_resume`, `ps_send_signal`, `ps_suspend`, `ps_terminal`, `ps_terminate`, `ps_uids`, `ps_username`

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