From ca1a2773184f2a496519399f72f70391da2f8bc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: albert <> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:52:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] man page more detailed #334682 --- NEWS | 1 + ps/ps.1 | 18 +++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d4da430d..83d7180a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ more MIPS crud -- thanks Jim Gifford and Ryan Oliver begin prep for setuid top: fix %CPU max on 2..9 CPU SMP -- thanks Ga*tan LEURENT ps: fix crash related to realloc -- thanks David Houlder +ps: man page more detailed #334682 procps-3.2.4 --> procps-3.2.5 diff --git a/ps/ps.1 b/ps/ps.1 index ab37baff..6d10dc6b 100644 --- a/ps/ps.1 +++ b/ps/ps.1 @@ -84,14 +84,18 @@ instead and print a warning. This behavior is intended to aid in transitioning old scripts and habits. It is fragile, subject to change, and thus should not be relied upon. .P -By default, \fBps\fR selects all processes with the same effective user -ID (EUID) as the curent user and associated with the same terminal as the -invoker. It displays the process ID (PID), the terminal associated -with the process (TTY), the cumulated CPU time in [dd\-]hh:mm:ss format -(TIME), and the executable name (CMD). Output is unsorted by default. +By default, \fBps\fR selects all processes +with the same effective user ID (euid=EUID) as the curent user +and +associated with the same terminal as the invoker. +It displays the process ID (pid=PID), +the terminal associated with the process (tname=TTY), +the cumulated CPU time in [dd\-]hh:mm:ss format (time=TIME), +and the executable name (ucmd=CMD). +Output is unsorted by default. .P -The use of BSD\-style options will add process state (STAT) to the -default display and show the command args (COMMAND) instead of the +The use of BSD\-style options will add process state (stat=STAT) to the +default display and show the command args (args=COMMAND) instead of the executable name. You can override this with the \fBPS_FORMAT\fR environment variable. The use of BSD\-style options will also change the process selection to include processes on other terminals (TTYs) that