NAME¶
pslist —
control processes and their descendants
SYNOPSIS¶
rrenice |
[+/-]pri
pid/name... |
DESCRIPTION¶
The
pslist utility examines the list of
current processes to find a specified process and all its descendants. A
process may be specified either by name or by process ID. If no arguments are
given,
pslist displays a list of the whole
process tree. For each process specified on the command line,
pslist outputs a line containing the
process ID, the command name, and the PIDs of all the descendants (and their
descendants, etc.).
When invoked as
rkill, this utility does not
display information about the processes, but sends them all a signal instead.
If not specified on the command line, a terminate (SIGTERM) signal is sent.
When invoked as
rrenice, this utility does
not display information about the processes, but attempts to set their nice
value instead.
RETURN VALUES¶
The
pslist utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO¶
pgrep(1),
pkill(1)
HISTORY¶
The
pslist utility was written by
Peter Pentchev in 2000.
AUTHORS¶
Peter Penchev
⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩
