exe process: what is this?

[Konstantin Svist]

George Avrunin wrote:
> On two Fedora 8 systems, I've noticed a process running for which the
> command is "exe".  But "locate exe" didn't return anything that fits (or
> at least that I recognized as fitting).  And it doesn't seem to be in my
> path or root's path.
>
> For instance, ps -el  gave 
> 0 S   500  2760  2679  0  80   0 -  7874 -      ?        00:01:35 exe
>
> and the relevant part of the output of ps -ejH is
>  2556  2556  2556 ?        00:00:00   gdm-binary
>  2635  2635  2556 ?        00:00:00     gdm-binary
>  2639  2639  2639 tty7     00:01:24       X
>  2679  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00       gnome-session
>  2741  2741  2741 ?        00:00:00         ssh-agent
>  2760  2679  2679 ?        00:01:35         exe
>  2764  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00           gconf-helper
>  2767  2679  2679 ?        00:00:15         gnome-panel
>  2782  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00         bluetooth-apple
>  2788  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00         nm-applet
>  2789  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00         puplet
>  2791  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00         python
>  2795  2679  2679 ?        00:00:01         pam-panel-icon
>  2798  2679  2679 ?        00:00:02           pam_timestamp_c
>  5084  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00         fvwm
>  5119  2679  2679 ?        00:00:00           FvwmBacker
>
> I also did an lsof to see what files that process had open, and a lot of
> them seem to have to do with sound, e.g., things
> like /usr/bin/pulseaudio, /usr/lib/libsamplerate,  /usr/lib/libsndfile.so,
> etc. (plus, of course, a lot of general stuff like libc, libm, libhal,
> libusb,...).
>
> So what is this exe and where is it located on the system?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   George
>   

if you do a 'ps -ejf' on that process id, you can see that it's 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio

not sure what 'exe' means, though