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⟩