From d7a570379bf550dcbfb86024ca3d752b2db4a038 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sevan Janiyan Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:01:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that /dev/kmem is not used. Move cross ref to right place while here. Submitted by: kib MFC after: 7 days --- bin/pkill/pkill.1 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 index 206d4080904..537f20f036e 100644 --- a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 +++ b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 @@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ The Sun Solaris implementation utilised procfs to obtain process information. 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