1.\" $FreeBSD$ 2.Dd November 23, 1997 3.Dt PROCCTL 8 4.Os 5.Sh NAME 6.Nm procctl 7.Nd clear procfs event flags 8.Sh SYNOPSIS 9.Nm 10.Ar pid ... 11.Sh DESCRIPTION 12The 13.Nm 14utility clears the 15.Xr procfs 5 16event mask used by 17.Xr truss 1 . 18This can be used in the event that a process is left stranded, since 19the 20.Xr procfs 5 21events result in a non-killable process. 22The arguments are a list of process IDs; 23.Nm 24goes through the list and clears the event masks for each specified process. 25.Sh SEE ALSO 26.Xr truss 1 , 27.Xr procfs 5 28.Sh HISTORY 29The 30.Nm 31utility was written by 32.An Sean Eric Fagan 33for 34.Fx . 35