Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:20:34 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r341435 - head/bin/pkill Message-ID: <20181203182034.GH2378@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <201812031800.wB3I0kJN013997@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:00:46PM +0000, Sevan Janiyan wrote: > 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. I believe this changes, although formally correct, makes invalid impression. kvm(3) internally uses kern.proc MIB to retrieve information about running processes, we do not scavenge /dev/kmem to obtain the list of processes on the live system. An additional sentence stating that, so no thought about access to kmem appear, would improve it.home | help
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