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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pkill/pkill.1')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 index db9283de26a3..40abbba96362 100644 --- a/bin/pkill/pkill.1 +++ b/bin/pkill/pkill.1 @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ .\" $NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.8 2003/02/14 15:59:18 grant Exp $ .\" -.\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -29,7 +27,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd October 5, 2020 +.Dd June 24, 2025 .Dt PKILL 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -73,12 +71,17 @@ The .Nm pgrep command searches the process table on the running system and prints the process IDs of all processes that match the criteria given on the command -line. +line, excluding itself and all direct ancestors unless the +.Fl a +option is specified. .Pp The .Nm pkill command searches the process table on the running system and signals all -processes that match the criteria given on the command line. +processes that match the criteria given on the command line, excluding itself +and all direct ancestors unless the +.Fl a +option is specified. .Pp The following options are available: .Bl -tag -width ".Fl F Ar pidfile" @@ -132,6 +135,16 @@ or process and all of its ancestors are excluded (unless .Fl v is used). +Note that the +.Fl a +option will not +.Dq unhide +the +.Nm pgrep +or +.Nm pkill +process itself, even with +.Fl v . .It Fl c Ar class Restrict matches to processes running with specified login class .Ar class . |