Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:57:21 +0300 From: "Samy Al Bahra" <samy@kerneled.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/59214: procfs.5: Update dependants information Message-ID: 1068645430@beastie.freebsd.local Resent-Message-ID: <200311121400.hACE0ZrZ021718@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 59214
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: procfs.5: Update dependants information
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 12 06:00:31 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Samy Al Bahra
>Release: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Kerneled
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD beastie.freebsd.local 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Wed Aug 20 18:35:24 AST 2003 samy@beastie.freebsd.local:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KERNELED i386
>Description:
The procfs(5) man pages states the following:
The process file system, or procfs, implements a view of the system
process table inside the file system. It is normally mounted on /proc,
and is required for the complete operation of programs such as ps(1) and
w(1).
The fact is, both ps and w are not dependant on /proc at all, rather they make
use of kvm. The fix will change to more correct wording.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- procfs.5 Fri Sep 12 14:12:17 2003
+++ /home/samy/development/freebsd/patches/doc/procfs.5 Wed Nov 12 16:20:58 2003
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@
It is normally mounted on
.Pa /proc ,
and is required for the complete operation of programs such as
-.Xr ps 1
-and
-.Xr w 1 .
+.Xr truss 1 ,
+.Xr gcore 1
+and other applications that depend on the provided debugging facilities
+and information.
+
.Pp
The
.Nm
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