svn commit: r341440 - head/bin/pkill
Sevan Janiyan
sevan at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 3 20:01:52 UTC 2018
Author: sevan (doc committer)
Date: Mon Dec 3 20:01:51 2018
New Revision: 341440
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/341440
Log:
Clarify that /dev/kmem is not used.
Move cross ref to right place while here.
Submitted by: kib
MFC after: 7 days
Modified:
head/bin/pkill/pkill.1
Modified: head/bin/pkill/pkill.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/pkill/pkill.1 Mon Dec 3 19:55:55 2018 (r341439)
+++ head/bin/pkill/pkill.1 Mon Dec 3 20:01:51 2018 (r341440)
@@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ The Sun Solaris implementation utilised procfs to obta
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
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