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authorCharles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>2015-03-27 09:09:09 +0000
committerCharles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>2015-03-27 09:09:09 +0000
commit2fc16ec957b6255fb06841bd3e0e312701a62a03 (patch)
tree2f61234aa3169fadb3357152f0ad6f1220190c7b /man/1
parentce7d49d04420bb1624d15393ec3b8ea75c1f82da (diff)
new version of broke as script
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diff --git a/man/1/kill b/man/1/kill
index 27b39a6a..151ec170 100644
--- a/man/1/kill
+++ b/man/1/kill
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ kill, broke \- terminate process(es)
]
.PP
.B broke
+[
+.I user
+]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Kill
terminates each process (for a numeric
@@ -46,9 +49,14 @@ file, and the process ID of each such process is printed on standard output.
A process that incurs an exception (eg, array bounds check)
is normally suspended in the `broken' state to allow debugging.
.I Broke
-kills all such processes owned by the current user, releasing any resources
-they hold back to the system;
-it prints their process IDs.
+finds all such processes owned by
+.I user
+(default: the current user), and
+prints
+.I sh (1)
+commands to them.
+The commands can be piped to the shell or selectively run,
+releasing back to the system any resources owned by those processes.
.SH FILES
.TF "/prog/pid/status "
.TP
@@ -58,7 +66,7 @@ it prints their process IDs.
.SH SOURCE
.B /appl/cmd/kill.b
.br
-.B /appl/cmd/broke.b
+.B /dis/broke
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR ps (1),
.IR prog (3)