NAME¶
pfind
,
zpfind
—
locate a process by number
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/param.h>
#include
<sys/proc.h>
struct proc *
pfind
(
pid_t
pid);
struct proc *
zpfind
(
pid_t
pid);
DESCRIPTION¶
pfind
() takes a
pid as its argument and returns a pointer to
the
proc structure whose PID is specified in
the argument only if the
pid is on the
allproc list.
zpfind
() takes a
pid as its argument. If
zpfind
() finds a process whose PID is equal
to that of argument and is a zombie process, meaning that it must reside on
the
zombproc list,
zpfind
() returns a pointer to that
proc structure.
Both
pfind
() and
zpfind
() lock the
proc structure that is returned using
PROC_LOCK
(
p).
RETURN VALUES¶
pfind
() and
zpfind
() return a pointer to a
proc structure on success and a
NULL
on failure.
SEE ALSO¶
pgfind(9)
AUTHORS¶
This manual page was written by
Evan
Sarmiento ⟨kaworu@sektor7.ath.cx⟩.