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authorJim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>2022-01-04 00:00:00 +0100
committerCraig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>2022-01-07 19:19:15 +1100
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doc: updated 3 man pages for 'LIBPROC_HIDE_KERNEL' var
This patch was prompted by Björn Fischer's merge #147 request referenced below. And since the library change may impact all users, multiple man pages were updated. [ and thanks to Björn for initiating this extension ] Reference(s): https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/merge_requests/147 Prototyped-by: Björn Fischer <bf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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Therefore, it is important that it \fInot\fR be activated
for a production/release build.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE(S)
+The value set for the following is unimportant, just its presence.
+
+.IP LIBPROC_HIDE_KERNEL
+This will hide kernel threads which would otherwise be returned with a
+.BR procps_get ", " procps_select " or " procps_reap
+call.
+
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR procps (3)
.BR procps_misc (3)