1.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Evan Sarmiento. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd July 11, 2001 26.Dt PFIND 9 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm pfind , zpfind 30.Nd locate a process by number 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.In sys/param.h 33.In sys/proc.h 34.Ft "struct proc *" 35.Fn pfind "pid_t pid" 36.Ft "struct proc *" 37.Fn zpfind "pid_t pid" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39.Fn pfind 40takes a 41.Fa pid 42as its argument and returns a pointer to the 43.Vt proc 44structure whose PID is specified in the argument only if the 45.Fa pid 46is on the 47.Va allproc 48list. 49.Pp 50.Fn zpfind 51takes a 52.Fa pid 53as its argument. 54If 55.Fn zpfind 56finds a process whose PID is equal to that of argument 57and is a zombie process, meaning that it must reside on the 58.Va zombproc 59list, 60.Fn zpfind 61returns a pointer to that 62.Vt proc 63structure. 64.Pp 65Both 66.Fn pfind 67and 68.Fn zpfind 69lock the 70.Vt proc 71structure that is returned using 72.Fn PROC_LOCK "p" . 73.Sh RETURN VALUES 74.Fn pfind 75and 76.Fn zpfind 77return a pointer to a 78.Vt proc 79structure on success and a 80.Dv NULL 81on failure. 82.Sh SEE ALSO 83.Xr pgfind 9 84.Sh AUTHORS 85This manual page was written by 86.An Evan Sarmiento Aq Mt kaworu@sektor7.ath.cx . 87