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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-29 23:13:57 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-29 23:13:57 +0000
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<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
<sect4><title>fuser</title>
-<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file
-systems.</para></sect4>
+<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified
+files or file systems.</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>killall</title>
<para>killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified
commands.</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>pidof</title>
-<para>pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
-prints those id's on standard output.</para></sect4>
+<para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
+programs.</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>pstree</title>
<para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para></sect4>