ttsession process purpose?

From: Tom Wood (twood@REZLINK.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 15:50:35 EST


What is the purpose/function of the ttsession process? From my monitor
display I consistently see that process as one of the top processes.

Here is a portion of the output of lsof -p 24138

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
ttsession 24138 root cwd VDIR 10,8 6144 1490944 /home
(/dev/hd
1)
ttsession 24138 root 0r VDIR 10,4 3072 2 /
(/dev/hd4)
ttsession 24138 root 1u VCHR 2,2 0t0 8287
/dev/null
ttsession 24138 root 2w VCHR 2,2 0t0 8287
/dev/null
ttsession 24138 root 3r FIFO 0x347616bc 0
ttsession 24138 root 4u SMT 0x346f3f80 0
->0x346f3d00
ttsession 24138 root 5r VREG 10,5 61437 57475 /usr
(/dev/hd2
)
ttsession 24138 root 6u IPv4 0x70fc1edc 0t0 TCP
*:45236 (LISTE
N)
ttsession 24138 root 7u IPv4 0x70353adc 0t4044 TCP
aixdb:45236->a
ixdb:660 (ESTABLISHED)
ttsession 24138 root 8u IPv4 0x70f16edc 0x47d23fd5320 TCP
aixdb:45236->a
ixdb:854 (ESTABLISHED)
ttsession 24138 root 9u IPv4 0x70f112dc 0t0 TCP
aixdb:46488->a
ixdb:46487 (ESTABLISHED)
ttsession 24138 root 10u IPv4 0x70393edc 0t4044 TCP
aixdb:45236->a
ixdb:872 (ESTABLISHED)
ttsession 24138 root 11u IPv4 0x71193adc 0t4044 TCP
aixdb:45236->a
ixdb:842 (ESTABLISHED)
ttsession 24138 root 12u IPv4 0x70d9e2dc 0t0 TCP
aixdb:46543->a
ixdb:46542 (ESTABLISHED)
ttsession 24138 root 13u IPv4 0x70e202dc 0t0 TCP
aixdb:46505->a
ixdb:46503 (ESTABLISHED)

thanks

tom



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