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.TH TAP 1
.SH NAME
tap \- follow the pipes of a process
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tap
[
.I pid ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Tap
walks the file descriptors of a process looking for pipes (see
.IR pipe (3))
and then finds the processes on the other end of these pipes
repeating the process recursively. The result is a tree of
alternating process and filedescriptor nodes that make up the
process pipeline.
.SH SOURCE
.B /rc/bin/tap
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR ps (1),
.IR pipe (3),
.IR proc (3).
.SH HISTORY
.I Tap
first appeared in 9front (March, 2012).