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33 .Nd function for getting process information from kernel
40 .Ft struct kinfo_proc *
41 .Fn kinfo_getproc "pid_t pid"
43 This function is used for obtaining process information from the kernel.
47 field contains the process identifier.
48 This should be a process that you have privilege to access.
49 This function is a wrapper around
54 While the kernel returns a packed structure, this function expands the
55 data into a fixed record format.
59 function returns a pointer to a
61 structure as defined by
63 The pointer was obtained by an internal call to
65 and must be freed by the caller with a call to
78 function first appeared in