Annotation of src/usr.bin/w/w.1, Revision 1.14
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32: .Dd June 6, 1993
33: .Dt W 1
1.8 aaron 34: .Os
1.1 deraadt 35: .Sh NAME
36: .Nm w
1.6 deraadt 37: .Nd "display users who are logged on and what they are doing"
1.1 deraadt 38: .Sh SYNOPSIS
39: .Nm w
1.4 deraadt 40: .Op Fl hia
1.1 deraadt 41: .Op Fl M Ar core
42: .Op Fl N Ar system
43: .Op Ar user
44: .Sh DESCRIPTION
45: The
1.8 aaron 46: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 47: utility prints a summary of the current activity on the system,
48: including what each user is doing.
49: The first line displays the current time of day, how long the system has
50: been running, the number of users logged into the system, and the load
51: averages.
52: The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged
53: over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
54: .Pp
55: The fields output are the user's login name, the name of the terminal the
56: user is on, the host from which the user is logged in, the time the user
57: logged on, the time since the user last typed anything,
58: and the name and arguments of the current process.
59: .Pp
60: The options are as follows:
1.11 aaron 61: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.1 deraadt 62: .It Fl h
63: Suppress the heading.
64: .It Fl i
65: Output is sorted by idle time.
1.9 millert 66: .It Fl M Ar core
1.1 deraadt 67: Extract values associated with the name list from the specified
1.9 millert 68: .Ar core
1.13 miod 69: instead of the running kernel.
1.9 millert 70: .It Fl N Ar system
71: Extract the name list from the specified
72: .Ar system
1.13 miod 73: instead of the running kernel.
1.4 deraadt 74: .It Fl a
75: Attempt to translate network addresses into names.
1.1 deraadt 76: .El
77: .Pp
78: If a
79: .Ar user
80: name is specified, the output is restricted to that user.
81: .Sh FILES
82: .Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact
83: .It Pa /var/run/utmp
84: list of users on the system
85: .El
86: .Sh SEE ALSO
87: .Xr finger 1 ,
88: .Xr ps 1 ,
89: .Xr uptime 1 ,
1.7 aaron 90: .Xr who 1
1.10 aaron 91: .Sh COMPATIBILITY
92: The
93: .Fl f ,
94: .Fl l ,
95: .Fl s ,
1.12 aaron 96: .Fl u ,
1.10 aaron 97: and
98: .Fl w
99: flags are no longer supported.
100: .Sh HISTORY
101: The
102: .Nm
103: command appeared in
104: .Bx 3.0 .
1.1 deraadt 105: .Sh BUGS
106: The notion of the
107: .Dq current process
108: is muddy.
1.10 aaron 109: The current algorithm is
110: ``the highest numbered process on the terminal
1.1 deraadt 111: that is not ignoring interrupts, or, if there is none, the highest numbered
1.10 aaron 112: process on the terminal.''
1.1 deraadt 113: This fails, for example, in critical sections of programs like the shell
114: and editor, or when faulty programs running in the background fork and fail
115: to ignore interrupts.
116: (In cases where no process can be found,
1.8 aaron 117: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 118: prints
119: .Dq \- . )
120: .Pp
1.10 aaron 121: The CPU time is only an estimate.
122: In particular, if someone leaves a background
1.1 deraadt 123: process running after logging out, the person currently on that terminal is
124: .Dq charged
125: with the time.
126: .Pp
127: Background processes are not shown, even though they account for
128: much of the load on the system.
129: .Pp
130: Sometimes processes, typically those in the background, are printed with
131: null or garbaged arguments.
132: In these cases, the name of the command is printed in parentheses.
133: .Pp
1.8 aaron 134: The
135: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 136: utility does not know about the new conventions for detection of background
137: jobs.
138: It will sometimes find a background job instead of the right one.