pspax(1)

pspax1

List elf/pax information about running processes

Usage

pspax [options] ELFs

Overview

pspax is a user-space utility that scans the proc directory and list ELF types, as well as their respective PaX flags and filenames and attributes. Depending on build options, it may additionally display the process running set of capabilities.

Options

-a, --all

Show all processes

-e, --header

Print GNU_STACK/PT_LOAD markings

-i, --ipaddr

Print ipaddr info if supported

-p, --pid PID

Only process specified process id

-u, --user UID

Process user/uid #

-g, --group GID

Process group/gid #

-n, --nx

Only display w^x processes

-w, --wx

Only display w|x processes

-v, --verbose

Be verbose (can be used more than once)

-B, --nobanner

Don't display the header

-h, --help

Show condensed usage and exit

-V, --version

Print version and exit

Homepage

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Utilities

Notes

1.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Utilities

2.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0–6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12
  9. 13
  10. Arch

--group since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --ipaddr since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --nobanner since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --nx since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --user since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --wx since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -e since Debian 8 (Jessie); -g since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -i since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -n since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -u since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -w since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

--banner until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Reporting bugs

Please include as much information as possible (using any available debugging options) and send bug reports to the maintainers (see the AUTHORS section). Please use the Gentoo bugzilla at https://bugs.gentoo.org/ if possible.

Authors

Ned Ludd <[email protected]>

Maintainer

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>

Maintainer

Fabian Groffen <[email protected]>

Mach-O Maintainer

From pax-utils 1.3.11-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.