> I had to dig into sa sources to get know what trailing '*' in > command names mean. IMHO, that's not how manuals should work. :) > > Okay?
That seems a little awkward mentioning fork directly. How about Children which have not yet called .Xr execve 2 will have .Sq * appended to their command names. > Index: sa.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/sa/sa.8,v > retrieving revision 1.19 > diff -u -p -r1.19 sa.8 > --- sa.8 16 Jul 2013 11:13:34 -0000 1.19 > +++ sa.8 20 Dec 2016 12:26:51 -0000 > @@ -205,6 +205,14 @@ flag is specified, only the > and > .Fl s > flags are honored. > +.Pp > +Processes created with > +.Xr fork 2 > +without > +.Xr exec 3 > +will have > +.Sq * > +appended to their command names. > .Sh FILES > .Bl -tag -width /var/account/usracct -compact > .It Pa /var/account/acct >
