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1.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Hudson River Trading LLC
2.\" Written by: John H. Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
3.\" All rights reserved.
4.\"
5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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28.Dd July 7, 2022
28.Dd July 12, 2022
29.Dt PROTECT 1
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm protect
33.Nd "protect processes from being killed when swap space is exhausted"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Fl i

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107.Nm PI
108points at the inheritance flag.
109The process is protected if
110.Nm P
111bit is set to 1.
112All children of this process will also be protected if
113.Nm PI
114bit is set to 1.
29.Dt PROTECT 1
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm protect
33.Nd "protect processes from being killed when swap space is exhausted"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Fl i

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107.Nm PI
108points at the inheritance flag.
109The process is protected if
110.Nm P
111bit is set to 1.
112All children of this process will also be protected if
113.Nm PI
114bit is set to 1.
115.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
116.Bl -diag
117.It "protect: procctl: Operation not permitted"
118The
119.Nm
120command does not have the required permissions to protect selected processes.
121There are many reasons why this could be the case, e.g.:
122.Bl -dash
123.It
124.Nm
125is not executed by root.
126.It
127.Nm
128is executed inside a
129.Xr jail 8 ,
130which is not supported at the moment.
131.El
132.El
115.Sh SEE ALSO
116.Xr ps 1 ,
117.Xr procctl 2 ,
118.Xr rc.conf 5
119.Sh BUGS
120If you protect a runaway process that allocates all memory the system will
121deadlock.
133.Sh SEE ALSO
134.Xr ps 1 ,
135.Xr procctl 2 ,
136.Xr rc.conf 5
137.Sh BUGS
138If you protect a runaway process that allocates all memory the system will
139deadlock.