DESCRIPTION

The pargs utility examines a target process or process core

file and prints arguments, environment variables and values,
or the process auxiliary vector.
pargs outputs unprintable characters as escaped octal in the
format \xxx, unless the character is one of the characters
specified in the "Escape Sequences" section of formats(5),
in which case the character is printed as specified in that
section.
pargs attempts to be sensitive to the locale of the target
process. If the target process and the pargs process do not
share a common character encoding, pargs attempts to employ
the iconv(3C) facility to generate a printable version of
the extracted strings. In the event that such a conversion
is impossible, strings are displayed as 7-bit ASCII.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a Prints process arguments as contained in argv[]
(default).
-c Treats strings in the target process as though
they were encoded in 7-bit ASCII, regardless of the
locale of the target. The use of iconv(3C) is
suppressed.
-e Prints process environment variables and values as
pointed at by the _environ symbol or by pr_envp in
/proc/pid/psinfo.
-F Force. Grabs the target process even if another
process has control.
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-l Displays the arguments as a single command line.
The command line is printed in a manner suitable
for interpretation by /bin/sh. If the arguments
contain unprintable characters, or if the target
process is in a different locale, a warning message
is displayed. The resulting command line might not
be interpreted correctly by /bin/sh.
-x Prints process auxiliary vector.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
pid Process ID list.
core Process core file.
USAGE
Caution should be exercised when using the -F flag. Imposing
two controlling processes on one victim process can lead to
chaos. Safety is assured only if the primary controlling
process, typically a debugger, has stopped the victim pro-
cess and the primary controlling process is doing nothing at
the moment of application of the proc tool in question.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
non-zero An error has occurred (such as no
such process, permission denied, or
invalid option).
FILES
/proc/pid/* Process information and control
files.
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ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes: