From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 22:24:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA2216A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:24:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: from afields.ca (afields.ca [216.194.67.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F15F43D48 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:24:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: from afields.ca (localhost.afields.ca [127.0.0.1]) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5FMOHLe096021 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:24:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: (from afields@localhost) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j5FMOHNI096020 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:24:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:24:17 -0400 From: Allan Fields To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050615222417.GA95979@afields.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: ddb(4) manpage: kill X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:24:18 -0000 --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Kill entry for ddb(4) manpage. -- Allan Fields --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ddb.diff" --- ddb.4.orig Wed Jun 15 16:36:40 2005 +++ ddb.4 Wed Jun 15 18:04:00 2005 @@ -409,6 +409,20 @@ .Li m modifier will alter the display to show VM map addresses for the process and not show other info. +.It Xo Cm kill +.Ar sig Ns , Ns +.Ar pid +.Xc +Send a signal to a process. +Send signal +.Ar sig +to process +.Ar pid Ns +, which is acted upon returning from the debugger. +Can be used to kill a process causing resource contention in the case of a hung system. +See: +.Xr signal 3 +for a list of signals. .It Cm show registers Ns Op Cm /u Display the register set. If the --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--