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.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd July 11, 2001 28.Dt PFIND 9 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm pfind , zpfind 32.Nd locate a process by number 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.In sys/param.h 35.In sys/proc.h 36.Ft "struct proc *" 37.Fn pfind "pid_t pid" 38.Ft "struct proc *" 39.Fn zpfind "pid_t pid" 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41.Fn pfind 42takes a 43.Fa pid 44as its argument and returns a pointer to the 45.Vt proc 46structure whose PID is specified in the argument only if the 47.Fa pid 48is on the 49.Va allproc 50list. 51.Pp 52.Fn zpfind 53takes a 54.Fa pid 55as its argument. 56If 57.Fn zpfind 58finds a process whose PID is equal to that of argument 59and is a zombie process, meaning that it must reside on the 60.Va zombproc 61list, 62.Fn zpfind 63returns a pointer to that 64.Vt proc 65structure. 66.Pp 67Both 68.Fn pfind 69and 70.Fn zpfind 71lock the 72.Vt proc 73structure that is returned using 74.Fn PROC_LOCK "p" . 75.Sh RETURN VALUES 76.Fn pfind 77and 78.Fn zpfind 79return a pointer to a 80.Vt proc 81structure on success and a 82.Dv NULL 83on failure. 84.Sh SEE ALSO 85.Xr pgfind 9 86.Sh AUTHORS 87This manual page was written by 88.An Evan Sarmiento Aq Mt kaworu@sektor7.ath.cx . 89