From 94bd4edef9c4458d8197c670e4a30c56e32a32ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:16:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Prefer the use of pgrep instead of ps | grep for exactly the
 reason specified in the handbook: ps is "racy".

Approved by:	jkois
---
 .../books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml            | 16 ++++------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
index 36150841e4..fa7f3d706b 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
@@ -2185,20 +2185,12 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
 
       <step>
 	<para>Find the process ID of the process you want to send the
-	  signal to.  Do this using &man.ps.1; and &man.grep.1;.  The
-	  &man.grep.1; command is used to search through output,
-	  looking for the string you specify.  This command is run as
-	  a normal user, and &man.inetd.8; is run as
-	  <username>root</username>, so the <option>ax</option>
-	  options must be given to &man.ps.1;.</para>
+	  signal to.  Do this using &man.pgrep.1;.</para>
 
-	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>ps -ax | grep inetd</userinput>
-  198  ??  IWs    0:00.00 inetd -wW</screen>
+	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pgrep -l inetd</userinput>
+198  inetd -wW</screen>
 
-	<para>So the &man.inetd.8; PID is 198.  In some cases the
-	  <literal>grep inetd</literal> command might also appear in
-	  this output.  This is because of the way &man.ps.1; has to
-	  find the list of running processes.</para>
+	<para>So the &man.inetd.8; PID is 198.</para>
       </step>
 
       <step>