On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:15:08PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:03:40PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote: > > Author: gjb > > Date: Sat Jan 10 22:03:39 2015 > > New Revision: 276919 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276919 > > > > Log: > > Document r270745, ps(1) 'tracer' keyword addition. > > > > Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation > > > > Modified: > > head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml > > > > Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml > > ============================================================================== > > --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jan 10 > > 22:03:36 2015 (r276918) > > +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jan 10 > > 22:03:39 2015 (r276919) > > @@ -382,6 +382,10 @@ > > defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename> > > if unset.</para> > > > > + <para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated > > + to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which displays > > + the parent <acronym>PID</acronym> of a child process.</para> > > + > > 'tracer' contains pid of the process doing the tracing. > > The kernel used to always replace parent pid with the tracer and then ps > -o ppid would report the tracer instead of the real parent. This was > changed and additional field was added to report the tracer. >
Reworded in r276946. Thanks. Glen
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