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The man page does explain what the bracket-braces means (it refers to threads), but I'm wondering what just the braces means.

From this here I can see that auditd and node are like this. 

❯ pstree
init─┬─agetty
     ├─atd
     ├─auditd───{auditd}
     ├─crond
     ├─dbus-daemon
     ├─dhclient
     ├─6*[mingetty]
     ├─ntpd
     ├─rsyslogd───3*[{rsyslogd}]
     ├─2*[sendmail]
     ├─sshd─┬─sshd───sshd───zsh───tmux
     │      └─sshd───sshd───zsh───man───sh───sh───less
     ├─tmux─┬─2*[zsh]
     │      ├─zsh───node───{node}
     │      └─zsh───pstree
     └─udevd───2*[udevd]

My current best guess is that it means they are blocked on input.

Steven Lu
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n*[{name}] means group of the n threads. If there is only one thread, pstree use {name}

{auditd} <=> 1*[{auditd}]

For group of threads, pstree use n*[{name}]:

├─rsyslogd───3*[{rsyslogd}]

equipvalent to: 

├─rsyslogd─┬─{rsyslogd}
           ├─{rsyslogd}
           └─{rsyslogd}

use command "pstree -a" to see the different.

damphat
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  • `-c` is the correct argument to disable "compaction" of trees. `-a` does this implicitly as well (though it does not seem to work for me), but its main intention is to display arguments of processes. Source: [pstree(1)](http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?pstree+1) – zpon Jun 23 '14 at 11:15