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| author | gad <gad@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-22 01:59:54 +0000 |
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| committer | gad <gad@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-22 01:59:54 +0000 |
| commit | 09466dade0e65526a2c25d08006f905436813799 (patch) | |
| tree | bdcadd8de00af88003f109c2440605343b38fdc4 /bin/ps | |
| parent | 16254a8419de6b9a12b023852a64bcc6cf4d492b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-09466dade0e65526a2c25d08006f905436813799.zip FreeBSD-src-09466dade0e65526a2c25d08006f905436813799.tar.gz | |
When displaying the "COMMAND" field for system-processes and/or kernel
threads, put the command name in square brackets instead of parenthesis.
This matches NetBSD, and also seems to be what linux does. The sentence
which is added to the man page is taken straight from NetBSD.
PR: bin/65803
Submitted by: Cyrille Lefevre
Obtained from: NetBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ps')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/ps/fmt.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/ps/ps.1 | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ps/fmt.c b/bin/ps/fmt.c index 07b27cb..d6e0109 100644 --- a/bin/ps/fmt.c +++ b/bin/ps/fmt.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ fmt_argv(char **argv, char *cmd, size_t maxlen) if (cp == NULL) errx(1, "malloc failed"); if (ap == NULL) - sprintf(cp, " (%.*s)", (int)maxlen, cmd); + sprintf(cp, "[%.*s]", (int)maxlen, cmd); else if (strncmp(cmdpart(argv[0]), cmd, maxlen) != 0) sprintf(cp, "%s (%.*s)", ap, (int)maxlen, cmd); else diff --git a/bin/ps/ps.1 b/bin/ps/ps.1 index 9b3db2b..7ec5a4b 100644 --- a/bin/ps/ps.1 +++ b/bin/ps/ps.1 @@ -414,6 +414,9 @@ 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. The .Nm utility |
