As the title said, which type of process is closed by brackets?

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Processes with names like ...

    2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]
 1174 ?        S      9:13 [kjournald]
 1984 ?        S      2:43 [flush-202:0]

... are kernel threads. They can be distinguished from normal processes in that they typically show up with no memory usage.

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processes in brackets [] are kernel threads...or processes that were started by init process...

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Processes started by init are not "special", and aren't displayed in brackets. – duskwuff Dec 24 '11 at 3:18
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