Add additional process states.

v3/process/process.go

@@ -45,13 +45,30 @@ type Process struct {
 
 // Process status
 const (
+	// Running marks a task a running or runnable (on the run queue)
 	Running = "running"
-	Sleep   = "sleep"
+	// Blocked marks a task waiting on a short, uninterruptable operation (usually IO)
-	Stop    = "stop"
+	Blocked = "blocked"
-	Idle    = "idle"
+	// Idle marks a task sleeping for more than about 20 seconds
-	Zombie  = "zombie"
+	Idle = "idle"
-	Wait    = "wait"
+	// Lock marks a task waiting to acquire a lock
-	Lock    = "lock"
+	Lock = "lock"
+	// Sleep marks task waiting for short, interruptable operation
+	Sleep = "sleep"
+	// Stop marks a stopped process
+	Stop = "stop"
+	// Wait marks an idle interrupt thread (or paging in pre 2.6.xx Linux)
+	Wait = "wait"
+	// Zombie marks a defunct process, terminated but not reaped by its parent
+	Zombie = "zombie"
+
+	// Solaris states. See https://github.com/collectd/collectd/blob/1da3305c10c8ff9a63081284cf3d4bb0f6daffd8/src/processes.c#L2115
+	Daemon   = "daemon"
+	Detached = "detached"
+	System   = "system"
+	Orphan   = "orphan"
+
+	UnknownState = ""
 )
 
 type OpenFilesStat struct {
@@ -554,23 +571,41 @@ func (p *Process) Environ() ([]string, error) {
 	return p.EnvironWithContext(context.Background())
 }
 
+// convertStatusChar as reported by the ps command across different platforms.
 func convertStatusChar(letter string) string {
+	// Sources
+	// Darwin: http://www.mywebuniversity.com/Man_Pages/Darwin/man_ps.html
+	// FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ps
+	// Linux https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html
+	// OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/ps.1#state
+	// Solaris: https://github.com/collectd/collectd/blob/1da3305c10c8ff9a63081284cf3d4bb0f6daffd8/src/processes.c#L2115
 	switch letter {
+	case "A":
+		return Daemon
+	case "D", "U":
+		return Blocked
+	case "E":
+		return Detached
+	case "I":
+		return Idle
+	case "L":
+		return Lock
+	case "O":
+		return Orphan
 	case "R":
 		return Running
 	case "S":
 		return Sleep
-	case "T":
+	case "T", "t":
+		// "t" is used by Linux to signal stopped by the debugger during tracing
 		return Stop
-	case "I":
-		return Idle
-	case "Z":
-		return Zombie
 	case "W":
 		return Wait
-	case "L":
+	case "Y":
-		return Lock
+		return System
+	case "Z":
+		return Zombie
 	default:
-		return ""
+		return UnknownState
 	}
 }

v3/process/process_test.go

@@ -660,7 +660,11 @@ func Test_CPUTimes(t *testing.T) {
 
 func Test_OpenFiles(t *testing.T) {
 	fp, err := os.Open("process_test.go")
-	defer fp.Close()
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	defer func() {
+		err := fp.Close()
+		assert.Nil(t, err)
+	}()
 
 	pid := os.Getpid()
 	p, err := NewProcess(int32(pid))