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32 | .\" @(#)w.1 6.8 (Berkeley) 4/23/91 | |
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34 | .Dd April 23, 1991 | |
35 | .Dt W 1 | |
36 | .Os BSD 4 | |
37 | .Sh NAME | |
38 | .Nm w | |
39 | .Nd "who present users are and what they are doing" | |
40 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
41 | .Nm w | |
42 | .Op Fl hi | |
43 | .Op Ar user | |
44 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
45 | .Nm W | |
46 | prints a summary of the current activity on the system, | |
47 | including what each user is doing. | |
48 | The heading shows the current time of day, how long the system has been up, | |
49 | the number of users logged into the system, and the load averages. | |
50 | The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue | |
51 | averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes. | |
52 | .Pp | |
53 | The fields output are: | |
54 | the user's login name, the name of the terminal (tty) the user is on, | |
55 | the host from which the user is logged in, the time the user logged on, | |
56 | the time since the user last typed anything, | |
57 | the | |
58 | .Tn CPU | |
59 | time used by all processes and their children on that tty, | |
60 | the | |
61 | .Tn CPU | |
62 | time used by the currently active processes, and the name and arguments | |
63 | of the current process. | |
64 | .Pp | |
65 | Available options are: | |
66 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
67 | .It Fl h | |
68 | Suppress the heading. | |
69 | .It Fl i | |
70 | Output is sorted by idle time. | |
71 | .El | |
72 | .Pp | |
73 | If a | |
74 | .Ar user | |
75 | name is given, the output is restricted to that user. | |
76 | .Sh FILES | |
77 | .Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact | |
78 | .It Pa /var/run/utmp | |
79 | list of users on the system | |
80 | .El | |
81 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
82 | .Xr who 1 , | |
83 | .Xr finger 1 , | |
84 | .Xr ps 1 | |
85 | .Sh BUGS | |
86 | The notion of the | |
87 | .Dq current process | |
88 | is muddy. | |
89 | The current algorithm is ``the highest numbered process on the terminal that | |
90 | is not ignoring interrupts, or, if there is none, the highest numbered | |
91 | process on the terminal''. | |
92 | This fails, for example, in critical sections of programs like the shell | |
93 | and editor, or when faulty programs running in the background fork and fail | |
94 | to ignore interrupts. | |
95 | (In cases where no process can be found, | |
96 | .Nm w | |
97 | prints | |
98 | .Dq \- . ) | |
99 | .Pp | |
100 | The | |
101 | .Tn CPU | |
102 | time is only an estimate, in particular, if someone leaves a | |
103 | background process running after logging out, the person currently | |
104 | on that terminal is | |
105 | .Dq charged | |
106 | with the time. | |
107 | .Pp | |
108 | Background processes are not shown, even though they account for | |
109 | much of the load on the system. | |
110 | .Pp | |
111 | Sometimes processes, typically those in the background, are | |
112 | printed with null or garbaged arguments. | |
113 | In these cases, the name of the command is printed in parentheses. | |
114 | .Pp | |
115 | .Nm W | |
116 | does not know about the new conventions for detection of background jobs. | |
117 | It will sometimes find a background job instead of the right one. | |
118 | .Sh COMPATIBILITY | |
119 | The | |
120 | .Fl f , | |
121 | .Fl l , | |
122 | .Fl s , | |
123 | and | |
124 | .Fl w | |
125 | flags are no longer supported. | |
126 | .Sh HISTORY | |
127 | The | |
128 | .Nm | |
129 | command appeared in | |
130 | .Ux 3.0 . |