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author | Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-12-03 18:00:46 +0000 |
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committer | Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-12-03 18:00:46 +0000 |
commit | 958805925657cbe14c0f1c72039f4681551edf99 (patch) | |
tree | 8346e48dd04fdb5b07df33c39b47290a006465d8 /bin/pkill | |
parent | 991699dbba31cda221ed1bdf4927dcea8e5c4c0a (diff) | |
download | src-958805925657cbe14c0f1c72039f4681551edf99.tar.gz src-958805925657cbe14c0f1c72039f4681551edf99.zip |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pkill')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/pkill/pkill.1 | 8 |
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 |