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Subject: i386/130910: procfs documentation
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>Number:         130910
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       procfs documentation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 23 08:00:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jean-Francois Papineau
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
Computer Administrator
>Environment:
FreeBSD internode.cc.shawcable.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #8: Tue Jan 20 18:50:31 PST 2009     root@internode.cc.shawcable.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INTERNODE  i386

>Description:
I was wondering why there is very little documentation of the /proc filesystem on the http://www.FreeBSD.org website. I have found a man page for procfs but there is no documentation found on the handbook to my knowledge of the use the /proc filesystem.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


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