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authorSevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2018-12-03 18:00:46 +0000
committerSevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2018-12-03 18:00:46 +0000
commit958805925657cbe14c0f1c72039f4681551edf99 (patch)
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parent991699dbba31cda221ed1bdf4927dcea8e5c4c0a (diff)
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Note these tools use kvm(3) and not procfs as in Solaris.
Obtained from: NetBSD MFC after: 7 days
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=341435
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/bin/pkill/pkill.1
index 2946565f55e6..206d40809040 100644
--- a/bin/pkill/pkill.1
+++ b/bin/pkill/pkill.1
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 1, 2018
+.Dd December 3, 2018
.Dt PKILL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@ or
.Nm pkill
process will never consider itself nor system processes (kernel threads) as
a potential match.
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
+The Sun Solaris implementation utilised procfs to obtain process information.
+This implementation utilises
+.Xr kvm 3
+instead.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
.Nm pgrep
@@ -276,6 +281,7 @@ is deprecated, and its use is discouraged in favor of
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr flock 2 ,
.Xr kill 2 ,
+.Xr kvm 3,
.Xr sigaction 2 ,
.Xr pidfile 3 ,
.Xr re_format 7