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.Dd August 21, 2013
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.Dt PROCDESC 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm procdesc
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.Nd process descriptor facility
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is a file-descriptor-oriented interface to process signalling and control,
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which supplements historic
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.Ux
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr kill 2 ,
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and
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.Xr wait4 2
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primitives with
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new system calls such as
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.Xr pdfork 2 ,
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.Xr pdkill 2 ,
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and
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.Xr pdwait4 2 .
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.Nm
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is designed for use with
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.Xr capsicum 4 ,
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replacing process identifiers with capability-oriented references.
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However, it can also be used independently of
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.Xr capsicum 4 ,
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displacing PIDs, which may otherwise suffer from race conditions.
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Given a process descriptor, it is possible to query its conventional PID using
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.Xr pdgetpid 2 .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr kill 2 ,
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.Xr pdfork 2 ,
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.Xr pdgetpid 2 ,
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.Xr pdkill 2 ,
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2013-09-05 00:41:07 +00:00
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.Xr pdwait4 2 ,
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2014-01-31 17:15:56 +00:00
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.Xr wait4 2 ,
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2013-08-28 19:49:32 +00:00
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.Xr capsicum 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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first appeared in
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.Fx 9.0 ,
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and was developed at the University of Cambridge.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.Nm
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was developed by
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.An -nosplit
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2014-06-26 21:46:14 +00:00
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.An Robert Watson Aq Mt rwatson@FreeBSD.org
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2013-08-28 19:49:32 +00:00
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and
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2014-06-26 21:46:14 +00:00
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.An Jonathan Anderson Aq Mt jonathan@FreeBSD.org
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2013-08-28 19:49:32 +00:00
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at the University of Cambridge, and
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2014-06-26 21:46:14 +00:00
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.An Ben Laurie Aq Mt benl@FreeBSD.org
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2013-08-28 19:49:32 +00:00
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and
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2014-06-26 21:46:14 +00:00
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.An Kris Kennaway Aq Mt kris@FreeBSD.org
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2013-08-28 19:49:32 +00:00
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at Google, Inc.
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.Sh BUGS
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.Nm
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is considered experimental in
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.Fx .
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