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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