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NAME

procctl — clear procfs event flags

SYNOPSIS

procctl pid ...

DESCRIPTION

The procctl utility clears the procfs(5) event mask used by truss(1). This can be used in the event that a process is left stranded, since the procfs(5) events result in a non-killable process. The arguments are a list of process IDs; procctl goes through the list and clears the event masks for each specified process.

SEE ALSO

truss(1), procfs(5)

HISTORY

The procctl utility was written by Sean Eric Fagan for FreeBSD.

BSD November 23, 1997 BSD