4 This package contains five little utilities that use the proc FS:
6 fuser identifies processes using files or sockets (similar to Sun's
8 killall kills processes by name, e.g. killall -HUP named
9 pidof like killall, buts lists PIDs instead of killing processes
10 pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree
11 peekfd shows the data travelling over a file descriptor
13 They should work with most recent kernels. Man pages are included.
15 - Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
17 src/loop.h was stolen from util-linux package which in turn stole it from
22 My thanks for the various translators who have cheerfully given me the po
23 files to make psmisc speak different languages. If your language is not
24 supported then let me know, all it takes is translating one file in
29 The pstree icons were drawn by Tatlin at Coresis who has given permission
30 for them to be used for psmisc.
35 The license has changed to GPL for version 20 onwards with permission
36 of the original authors. People who want to use these programs under
37 the previous license will have to look at psmisc 19 or below.