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\-
The default behaviour for blktrace is to run forever until explicitly
-killed by the user (via a control-C, or kill utility invocation).
-There are two ways to modify this:
-
-.TP 5
- 1.
-You may utilise the blktrace utility itself to kill
-a running trace -- via the \fB\-k\fR option.
-
-.TP 5
- 2.
-You can specify a run-time duration for blktrace via the
-\fB\-w\fR option -- then blktrace will run for the specified number
-of seconds, and then halt.
+killed by the user (via a control-C, or sending SIGINT signal to the
+process via invocation the kill (1) utility). Also you can specify a
+run-time duration for blktrace via the \fB\-w\fR option -- then
+blktrace will run for the specified number of seconds, and then halt.
.SH OPTIONS
Adds the devices found in \fIfile\fR as devices to trace
.RE
-\-k
-.br
-\-\-kill
-.RS
-Kill on-going trace
-.RE
-
\-n \fInum\-sub\fR
.br
\-\-num\-sub=\fInum-sub\fR