From 0c370c1a96315b982aac0eabaaf2f5267539a838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Drewery Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:09:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note the double fork behavior with filemon. X-MFC-With: r295029 MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division --- share/man/man4/filemon.4 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/share/man/man4/filemon.4 b/share/man/man4/filemon.4 index 2a3ddddea8ea..c0b4a51c5b4a 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/filemon.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/filemon.4 @@ -189,3 +189,8 @@ device appeared in Loading .Nm may reduce system performance for the noted syscalls. +.Pp +Only children of the set process are logged. +Processes can escape being traced by double forking. +This is not seen as a problem as the intended use is build monitoring, which +does not make sense to have daemons for.