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Submit #3160 ยป patch-pkill.txt

sevan, 12/03/2018 11:19 AM

 
--- /usr/src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 2014-04-11 15:09:00.000000000 -0700
+++ pkill.1 2018-12-03 11:14:42.574300000 -0800
@@ -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 August 9, 2013
+.Dd December 3, 2018
.Dt PKILL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -240,6 +240,11 @@
.Nm pkill
process will never consider itself nor system processes (kernel threads) as
a potential match.
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
+The Sun Solaris implemenation utilised procfs to obtain process information.
+This implementation utilises
+.Xr kvm 3
+instead.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
.Nm pgrep
    (1-1/1)