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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2009-07-27 14:53:54 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2009-07-27 14:53:54 +0000 |
| commit | 734e1cd6bdac3b18f35f6bd80cd0e1ed0b0f81a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 771b40e8385b15ced7fb9a694cc101e464116256 | |
| parent | List the additional TOS values and DiffServ Code Points now recognised (diff) | |
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document how patterns are matched and that only the first 16 chars
are tracked to match the command name;
pointed out by fgsch
diff adapted from text from gad@freebsd
ok fgsch sobrado millert
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 index 5fcb78c6877..2f0bafd1727 100644 --- a/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 +++ b/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pkill.1,v 1.14 2009/06/07 22:16:43 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pkill.1,v 1.15 2009/07/27 14:53:54 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.8 2003/02/14 15:59:18 grant Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 7 2009 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 27 2009 $ .Dt PKILL 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -158,6 +158,20 @@ This option is valid only when given as the first argument to .Nm pkill . .El .Pp +If any +.Ar pattern +operands are specified, they are used as +regular expressions to match the command name +or, if +.Fl f +is specified, the full argument list of each process. +However, presently +.Ox +will only keep track of the first 16 characters of the command name +for each process. +Attempts to match any characters after the first 16 of a +command name will silently fail. +.Pp Note that a running .Nm pgrep or |