1 .TH kill.d 1m "$Date:: 2007-08-05 #$" "USER COMMANDS"
3 kill.d \- snoop process signals as they occur. Uses DTrace.
7 kill.d is a simple DTrace program to print details of process
8 signals as they are sent, such as the PID source and destination,
9 signal number and result.
11 This program can be used to determine which process is sending
12 signals to which other process.
14 Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the
15 dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
19 stable - needs the syscall provider.
22 Default output, print process signals as they are sent.
38 destination signal ("9" for a kill -9)
41 result of signal (-1 is for failure)
43 See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the
44 Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked
45 examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.
47 kill.d will run forever until Ctrl\-C is hit.