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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