opensolaris man page for pargs

pargs(1)							   User Commands							  pargs(1)

NAME
       pargs - print  process  arguments,  environment	variables,  or auxiliary vector

SYNOPSIS
       pargs [-aceFlx] [pid | core]...

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 char-
       acter 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.

       -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 process 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.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       proc(1), iconv(3C), proc(4), ascii(5), attributes(5), environ(5), formats(5)

SunOS 5.11							    19 Jun 2006 							  pargs(1)