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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:00:46 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r341435 - head/bin/pkill
Message-ID:  <201812031800.wB3I0kJN013997@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: sevan (doc committer)
Date: Mon Dec  3 18:00:46 2018
New Revision: 341435
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/341435

Log:
  Note these tools use kvm(3) and not procfs as in Solaris.
  
  Obtained from:	NetBSD
  MFC after:	7 days

Modified:
  head/bin/pkill/pkill.1

Modified: head/bin/pkill/pkill.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/pkill/pkill.1	Mon Dec  3 17:51:22 2018	(r341434)
+++ head/bin/pkill/pkill.1	Mon Dec  3 18:00:46 2018	(r341435)
@@ -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



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