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| author | Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-12-03 20:01:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-12-03 20:01:51 +0000 |
| commit | d7a570379bf550dcbfb86024ca3d752b2db4a038 (patch) | |
| tree | 54a33e1f75f9c34c74e4b32c8b1b15295a25401b /bin/pkill | |
| parent | 5962a71ecf450001a44ead7ab8bc1f5a7a27d4f5 (diff) | |
| download | src-d7a570379bf550dcbfb86024ca3d752b2db4a038.tar.gz src-d7a570379bf550dcbfb86024ca3d752b2db4a038.zip | |
Clarify that /dev/kmem is not used.
Move cross ref to right place while here.
Submitted by: kib
MFC after: 7 days
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=341440
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pkill')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/pkill/pkill.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 index 206d40809040..537f20f036ef 100644 --- a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 +++ b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 @@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ The Sun Solaris implementation utilised procfs to obtain process information. This implementation utilises .Xr kvm 3 instead. +On a live system, +.Xr kvm 3 +uses +.Va kern.proc +MIB to obtain the list of processes, kernel memory through +.Pa /dev/kmem +is not accessed. .Sh EXIT STATUS The .Nm pgrep @@ -281,8 +288,8 @@ 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 kvm 3 , .Xr pidfile 3 , .Xr re_format 7 .\" Xr signal 7 |