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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:09:04 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r295030 - head/share/man/man4
Message-ID:  <201601290109.u0T194n0090539@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: bdrewery
Date: Fri Jan 29 01:09:04 2016
New Revision: 295030
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295030

Log:
  Note the double fork behavior with filemon.
  
  X-MFC-With:	r295029
  MFC after:	2 weeks
  Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division

Modified:
  head/share/man/man4/filemon.4

Modified: head/share/man/man4/filemon.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/filemon.4	Fri Jan 29 01:00:12 2016	(r295029)
+++ head/share/man/man4/filemon.4	Fri Jan 29 01:09:04 2016	(r295030)
@@ -189,3 +189,8 @@ device appeared in
 Loading
 .Nm
 may reduce system performance for the noted syscalls.
+.Pp
+Only children of the set process are logged.
+Processes can escape being traced by double forking.
+This is not seen as a problem as the intended use is build monitoring, which
+does not make sense to have daemons for.



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