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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Robert N. M. Watson
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This software was developed by SRI International and the University of
+.\" Cambridge Computer Laboratory under DARPA/AFRL contract (FA8750-10-C-0237)
+.\" ("CTSRD"), as part of the DARPA CRASH research programme.
+.\"
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd May 15, 2020
+.Dt PROCDESC 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm procdesc
+.Nd process descriptor facility
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is a file-descriptor-oriented interface to process signalling and control,
+which supplements historic
+.Ux
+.Xr fork 2
+and
+.Xr kill 2 ,
+primitives with
+new system calls such as
+.Xr pdfork 2
+and
+.Xr pdkill 2 ,
+.Nm
+is designed for use with
+.Xr capsicum 4 ,
+replacing process identifiers with capability-oriented references.
+However, it can also be used independently of
+.Xr capsicum 4 ,
+displacing PIDs, which may otherwise suffer from race conditions.
+Given a process descriptor, it is possible to query its conventional PID using
+.Xr pdgetpid 2 .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr fork 2 ,
+.Xr kill 2 ,
+.Xr kqueue 2 ,
+.Xr pdfork 2 ,
+.Xr pdgetpid 2 ,
+.Xr pdkill 2 ,
+.Xr wait4 2 ,
+.Xr capsicum 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm
+first appeared in
+.Fx 9.0 ,
+and was developed at the University of Cambridge.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.Nm
+was developed by
+.An -nosplit
+.An Robert Watson Aq Mt rwatson@FreeBSD.org
+and
+.An Jonathan Anderson Aq Mt jonathan@FreeBSD.org
+at the University of Cambridge, and
+.An Ben Laurie Aq Mt benl@FreeBSD.org
+and
+.An Kris Kennaway Aq Mt kris@FreeBSD.org
+at Google, Inc.