> 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
> 

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