Decipher ps -v Output

Kurt Wall kwall
Sun May 8 19:44:21 PDT 2005


On Sunday 08 May 2005 20:08, Matthew Carpenter enlightened us thusly:
> And if I'm not mistaken, that means text as in "program code," not
> variables...  Of course, this is also intuitive for the casual
> hacker.

That much I know. "text" = "program code" and "data" = "initialized
variables."

Kurt


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