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diff --git a/man/pgrep.1 b/man/pgrep.1 index 64e610d..fb1a2d3 100644 --- a/man/pgrep.1 +++ b/man/pgrep.1 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" -.TH PGREP "1" "2022-11-01" "procps-ng" "User Commands" +.TH PGREP "1" "2023-01-16" "procps-ng" "User Commands" .SH NAME pgrep, pkill, pidwait \- look up, signal, or wait for processes based on name and other attributes .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -172,7 +172,9 @@ match the .TP \fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-pidfile\fR \fIfile\fR Read \fIPID\fRs from \fIfile\fR. This option is more useful for -.BR pkill or pidwait +.B pkill +or +.B pidwait than .BR pgrep . .TP @@ -207,18 +209,18 @@ limit which namespaces to match. .TP \fB\-\-nslist \fIname\fP,... Match only the provided namespaces. Available namespaces: -ipc, mnt, net, pid, user,uts. +ipc, mnt, net, pid, user, uts. .TP \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queue \fIvalue\fP Use -.BR sigqueue(3) +.BR sigqueue (3) rather than -.BR kill(2) +.BR kill (2) and the value argument is used to specify an integer to be sent with the signal. If the receiving process has installed a handler for this signal using the SA_SIGINFO flag to -.BR sigaction(2) -, then it can obtain this data via the si_value field of the +.BR sigaction (2), +then it can obtain this data via the si_value field of the siginfo_t structure. .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR @@ -260,7 +262,11 @@ $ renice +4 $(pgrep chrome) .PD 0 .TP 0 -One or more processes matched the criteria. For pkill and pidwait, one or more +One or more processes matched the criteria. For +.B pkill +and +.BR pidwait , +one or more processes must also have been successfully signalled or waited for. .TP 1 @@ -288,7 +294,7 @@ match. .PP The .B \-O \-\-older -option will silently fail if /proc is mounted with the \fIsubset=pid\fR option. +option will silently fail if \fI/proc\fR is mounted with the \fIsubset=pid\fR option. .SH BUGS The options .B \-n @@ -314,7 +320,7 @@ system call which first appeared in Linux 5.3. .BR skill (1), .BR kill (1), .BR kill (2), -.BR cgroups (8) +.BR cgroups (8). .SH AUTHOR .UR kjetilho@ifi.uio.no Kjetil Torgrim Homme |