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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
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diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_getprocs.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_getprocs.3
index b2703a1..bacaed6 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_getprocs.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_getprocs.3
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ The
and
.Fa arg
arguments constitute a predicate which limits the set of processes
-returned. The value of
+returned.
+The value of
.Fa op
describes the filtering predicate as follows:
.Pp
@@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ command line arguments passed to process indicated by
.Fa p .
Most likely, these arguments correspond to the values passed to
.Xr exec 3
-on process creation. This information is, however,
+on process creation.
+This information is, however,
deliberately under control of the process itself.
Note that the original command name can be found, unaltered,
in the p_comm field of the process structure returned by
@@ -125,7 +127,8 @@ in the p_comm field of the process structure returned by
The
.Fa nchr
argument indicates the maximum number of characters, including null bytes,
-to use in building the strings. If this amount is exceeded, the string
+to use in building the strings.
+If this amount is exceeded, the string
causing the overflow is truncated and the partial result is returned.
This is handy for programs like
.Xr ps 1
@@ -139,7 +142,8 @@ is zero, no limit is imposed and all argument strings are returned in
their entirety.
.Pp
The memory allocated to the argv pointers and string storage
-is owned by the kvm library. Subsequent
+is owned by the kvm library.
+Subsequent
.Fn kvm_getprocs
and
.Xr kvm_close 3
@@ -149,7 +153,8 @@ The
.Fn kvm_getenvv
function is similar to
.Fn kvm_getargv
-but returns the vector of environment strings. This data is
+but returns the vector of environment strings.
+This data is
also alterable by the process.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
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