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Several improvements to ps.1:

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- Document the fact that empty heading text suppresses the
	  heading line (e.g. 'ps -o pid='), as this is very useful
	  in scripts.
	- Describe logname keyword more completely.
	- Describe the printing of arguments more completely.
	- Put lockname in the correct alphabetical order in the list
	  of all keywords.
	- Correct sentence in standards section.

Submitted by:	Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack nl>
PR:		docs/73618
MFC After:	1 week
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Xin LI 2005-02-14 16:56:15 +00:00
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@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ Keywords may be appended with an equals
sign and a string.
This causes the printed header to use the specified string instead of
the standard header.
If all keywords have empty header texts, no header line is written.
.It Fl p
Display information about processes which match the specified process IDs.
.It Fl r
@ -312,6 +313,9 @@ The name of the lock that the process is currently blocked on.
If the name is invalid or unknown, then
.Dq ???\&
is displayed.
.It Cm logname
The login name associated with the session the process is in (see
.Xr getlogin 2 ) .
.It Cm mwchan
The event name if the process is blocked normally, or the lock name if
the process is blocked on a lock.
@ -416,18 +420,26 @@ is listed as
and a process which is blocked while trying
to exit is listed as
.Dq Li <exiting> .
If the command vector cannot be located (usually because it has not
been set, as is the case of system processes and/or kernel threads)
the command name is printed within square brackets.
If the arguments cannot be located (usually because it has not been set, as is
the case of system processes and/or kernel threads) the command name is printed
within square brackets.
The
.Nm
utility
utility first tries to obtain the arguments cached by the kernel (if they were
shorter than the value of the
.Va kern.ps_arg_cache_limit
sysctl).
The process can change the arguments shown with
.Xr setproctitle 3 .
Otherwise,
.Nm
makes an educated guess as to the file name and arguments given when the
process was created by examining memory or the swap area.
The method is inherently somewhat unreliable and in any event a process
is entitled to destroy this information, so the names cannot be depended
on too much.
is entitled to destroy this information.
The ucomm (accounting) keyword can, however, be depended on.
If the arguments are unavailable or do not agree with the ucomm keyword,
the value for the ucomm keyword is appended to the arguments in parentheses.
.Sh KEYWORDS
The following is a complete list of the available keywords and their
meanings.
@ -467,8 +479,10 @@ tracing flags
MAC label
.It Cm lim
memoryuse limit
.It Cm lockname
lock currently blocked on (as a symbolic name)
.It Cm logname
login name of user who started the process
login name of user who started the session
.It Cm lstart
time started
.It Cm majflt
@ -479,8 +493,6 @@ total page reclaims
total messages received (reads from pipes/sockets)
.It Cm msgsnd
total messages sent (writes on pipes/sockets)
.It Cm lockname
lock currently blocked on (as a symbolic name)
.It Cm mwchan
wait channel or lock currently blocked on
.It Cm nice
@ -622,7 +634,7 @@ the mount point of
.Xr sysctl 8 ,
.Xr mutex 9
.Sh STANDARDS
For historical reasons,
For historical reasons, the
.Nm
utility under
.Fx