Binary package “psmisc” in ubuntu trusty
utilities that use the proc file system
This package contains miscellaneous utilities that use the proc FS:
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- fuser: identifies processes that are using files or sockets.
- killall: kills processes by name (e.g. "killall -HUP named").
- peekfd: shows the data traveling over a file descriptor.
- pstree: shows currently running processes as a tree.
- prtstat: print the contents of /proc/<pid>/stat