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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1995-12-30 13:52:02 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1995-12-30 13:52:02 +0000
commit39d74eed6420c57393fd121fe8d242506656c729 (patch)
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Small man page tweaks:
. mention the need for procfs . make it clear that default sorting is first by ctty, then by PID Submitted by: schweikh@ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
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-rw-r--r--bin/ps/ps.114
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ps/ps.1 b/bin/ps/ps.1
index 7dd9475..cb3f5a3 100644
--- a/bin/ps/ps.1
+++ b/bin/ps/ps.1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)ps.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
-.\" $Id: ps.1,v 1.4 1994/09/24 02:56:46 davidg Exp $
+.\" $Id: ps.1,v 1.5 1995/12/26 03:38:52 peter Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 18, 1994
.Dt PS 1
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
.Nm \&Ps
displays a header line followed by lines containing information about your
processes that have controlling terminals.
-This information is sorted by process
+This information is sorted by controlling terminal, then by process
.Tn ID .
.Pp
The information displayed is selected based on a set of keywords (see the
@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ The default output format includes, for each process, the process'
controlling terminal, cpu time (including both user and system time),
state, and associated command.
.Pp
+The process file system (see
+.Xr procfs 5
+\&) should be mounted when
+.Nm
+is executed, otherwise not all information will be available.
+.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a
@@ -495,12 +501,16 @@ default kernel memory
system namelist database
.It Pa /kernel
default system namelist
+.It Pa /proc
+the mount point of
+.Xr procfs 5
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kill 1 ,
.Xr w 1 ,
.Xr kvm 3 ,
.Xr strftime 3 ,
+.Xr procfs 5 ,
.Xr pstat 8
.Sh BUGS
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