[KLUG Members] pipdwt

[Kevin Mitchell]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:31 -0400, Kevin Mitchell wrote:
>> Does anyone know what pipdwt in the STATE section of top means?
>> Google returns very little, Wikipedia and the man page have nothing.  This
>> is on a FreeBSD 6.0 box.
>
> I don't, but maybe we can figure it out. Can you post a short sample of
> output that displays the text?
>
> -- 
> Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
> The Imagerie
>

Actually the process is no longer running (it finished) and I don't have 
another example.  A BSD friend said that he thinks it meant that it was a 
"piping process in a wait state".

Thanks,

Kevin