What the heck is strweld process and what does it do?

[Allen DuBeau]

I have searched all over on docs.hp.com this forum and on google and I can not find anything to tell me what this process does,besides being a system process.

I have a DBA stating he is unable to load a patch because this process is running and he did not encounter the problem on the dev/test system. I looked at streams/ux doco and it doesn't mention mention the strweld. any help is appreciated....

[Steven E. Protter]

I got one too.

It started the last time I booted my boxes (Decmember 15 for those keeping score at home).

I have found little on this but suspect its run at boot time since its not very active.

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[Scot Bean]

There are 3 daemons that start with "str":

strmem
strweld
strfreebd

These are very low level drivers involved with "streams".

The only doc I could find is a bit datedm but here it is: http://docs.hp.com/en/J2237-90005/index.html

Try running "strvf" on the machine, just for fun, to see if streams is up and running.

[rick jones]

I believe that strweld is a context in which two streams (in a Streams sense) can be "welded" together, but that is a vague recollection, and I could be wrong.

I'd not expect it to be getting in the way - is there much of anything terribly interesting going-on on the box at the time of the attempted patch, and what _exactly_ is the error message from the patch load?