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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 |