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30.Dd May 15, 2020
31.Dt PROCDESC 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm procdesc
35.Nd process descriptor facility
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37.Nm
38is a file-descriptor-oriented interface to process signalling and control,
39which supplements historic
40.Ux
41.Xr fork 2
42and
43.Xr kill 2 ,
44primitives with
45new system calls such as
46.Xr pdfork 2
47and
48.Xr pdkill 2 ,
49.Nm
50is designed for use with
51.Xr capsicum 4 ,
52replacing process identifiers with capability-oriented references.
53However, it can also be used independently of
54.Xr capsicum 4 ,
55displacing PIDs, which may otherwise suffer from race conditions.
56Given a process descriptor, it is possible to query its conventional PID using
57.Xr pdgetpid 2 .
58.Sh SEE ALSO
59.Xr fork 2 ,
60.Xr kill 2 ,
61.Xr pdfork 2 ,
62.Xr pdgetpid 2 ,
63.Xr pdkill 2 ,
64.Xr kqueue 2 ,
65.Xr wait4 2 ,
66.Xr capsicum 4
67.Sh HISTORY
68.Nm
69first appeared in
70.Fx 9.0 ,
71and was developed at the University of Cambridge.
72.Sh AUTHORS
73.Nm
74was developed by
75.An -nosplit
76.An Robert Watson Aq Mt rwatson@FreeBSD.org
77and
78.An Jonathan Anderson Aq Mt jonathan@FreeBSD.org
79at the University of Cambridge, and
80.An Ben Laurie Aq Mt benl@FreeBSD.org
81and
82.An Kris Kennaway Aq Mt kris@FreeBSD.org
83at Google, Inc.
84