Module Name: src Committed By: wiz Date: Sun Apr 15 18:09:50 UTC 2012
Modified Files: src/bin/ps: ps.1 Log Message: - choose better argument name for `-U'; - add argument names for options in man page; - improve wording, punctuation, capitalization. >From Bug Hunting in email. To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r1.98 -r1.99 src/bin/ps/ps.1 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files: Index: src/bin/ps/ps.1 diff -u src/bin/ps/ps.1:1.98 src/bin/ps/ps.1:1.99 --- src/bin/ps/ps.1:1.98 Thu Mar 15 15:49:59 2012 +++ src/bin/ps/ps.1 Sun Apr 15 18:09:50 2012 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: ps.1,v 1.98 2012/03/15 15:49:59 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: ps.1,v 1.99 2012/04/15 18:09:50 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ .Op Fl o Ar fmt .Op Fl p Ar pid .Op Fl t Ar tty -.Op Fl U Ar username +.Op Fl U Ar user .Op Fl W Ar swap .Nm .Fl L @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Print information associated with the fo .Ar user , pid , ppid , pgid , sess , jobc , state , tt , time , and .Ar command . -.It Fl k +.It Fl k Ar key Sort the output using the space or comma separated list of keywords. Multiple sort keys may be specified, using any of the .Fl k , Fl m , @@ -128,19 +128,19 @@ Display information associated with the .Ar tt , time , and .Ar command . -.It Fl M +.It Fl M Ar core Extract values from the specified core file instead of the running system. .It Fl m -Sort by memory usage, -equivalent to +Sort by memory usage. +This is equivalent to .Fl k Ar vsz . -.It Fl N -Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default +.It Fl N Ar system +Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default, .Dq Pa /netbsd . Ignored unless .Fl M is specified. -.It Fl O +.It Fl O Ar fmt Display information associated with the space or comma separated list of keywords specified. The @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ followed by a customised header string m as described in more detail under the .Fl o option. -.It Fl o +.It Fl o Ar fmt Display information associated with the space or comma separated list of keywords specified. Use of the @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ options. If all the keywords to be displayed have customised headers, and all the customised headers are entirely empty, then the header line is not printed at all. -.It Fl p +.It Fl p Ar pid Display information associated with the specified process .Tn ID . .It Fl r @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ and .It Fl T Display information about processes attached to the device associated with the standard input. -.It Fl t +.It Fl t Ar tty Display information about processes attached to the specified terminal device. Use a question mark @@ -224,11 +224,9 @@ terminal device and a minus sign .Pq Dq - for processes that have been revoked from their terminal device. -.It Fl U -Displays processes belonging to the user whose username or uid has -been given to the -.Fl U -switch. +.It Fl U Ar user +Display processes belonging to the specified user, +given either as a user name or a uid. .It Fl u Display information associated with the following keywords: .Ar user , pid , %cpu , %mem , vsz , rss , tt , state , start , time , @@ -250,9 +248,8 @@ The option implies the .Fl m option. -.It Fl W -Extract swap information from the specified file instead of the -default +.It Fl W Ar swap +Extract swap information from the specified file instead of the default, .Dq Pa /dev/drum . Ignored unless .Fl M @@ -400,7 +397,7 @@ The process is being traced or debugged. .It Ar tt An abbreviation for the pathname of the controlling terminal, if any. The abbreviation consists of the two letters following -.Dq Pa /dev/tty , +.Dq Pa /dev/tty or, for the console, .Dq co . This is followed by a @@ -594,7 +591,7 @@ real group .It Ar rlink reverse link on run queue, or 0 .It Ar rlwp -Number of LWPs on a processor or run queue +number of LWPs on a processor or run queue .It Ar rss resident set size .It Ar rsz @@ -688,9 +685,9 @@ default swap device .It Pa /var/run/dev.db /dev name database .It Pa /var/db/kvm.db -system namelist database +system name list database .It Pa /netbsd -default system namelist +default system name list .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kill 1 ,