From fb7b3f0382bb50d07d08b4ffa5071ad38e3f36d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ru <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:04:48 +0000
Subject: Update information of how pstat(8) accesses the running system.

---
 usr.sbin/pstat/pstat.8 | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.sbin')

diff --git a/usr.sbin/pstat/pstat.8 b/usr.sbin/pstat/pstat.8
index 39c73a3..79457b4 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pstat/pstat.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/pstat/pstat.8
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ option is implied, and only the
 .Fl k
 option is legal.
 .Pp
+If neither the
+.Fl N
+nor the
+.Fl M
+option is specified, information is obtained from
+the currently running kernel via the
+.Xr sysctl 3
+interface.
+Otherwise, information is read from the specified core file,
+using the name list from the specified kernel image (or from
+the default image).
+.Pp
 The following options are available:
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Fl n
@@ -230,19 +242,10 @@ for
 PPPDISC.
 .El
 .It Fl M
-Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core
-instead of the default
-.Pa /dev/kmem .
+Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core.
 .It Fl N
-Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
-.Pa /boot/kernel/kernel .
-.El
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/kernel -compact
-.It Pa /boot/kernel/kernel
-namelist
-.It Pa /dev/mem
-default source of tables
+Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default,
+which is the kernel image the system has booted from.
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr ps 1 ,
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