Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:21:49 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/34155: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes Message-ID: <20020122082149.A60293@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <200201221220.g0MCK3s35575@freefall.freebsd.org>; from roam@ringlet.net on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:20:03AM -0800 References: <200201221220.g0MCK3s35575@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Well, since there's confirmation, I'll take this. Patch applied (sort of... it was simple enough to just *do*. But thanks. :) On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:20:03AM -0800, Peter Pentchev wrote: > The following reply was made to PR docs/34155; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> > To: Marian Cerny <cerny@spnv.sk> > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: docs/34155: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:13:23 +0200 > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:47:29AM -0800, Marian Cerny wrote: > > > > >Number: 34155 > > >Category: docs > > >Synopsis: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes > > >Originator: Marian Cerny > > >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE > > >Organization: > > private > > >Environment: > > FreeBSD ivetka 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001 > > murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > >Description: > > In Handbook, Section 3.5 - Processes: > > > > > As you can see in this example, the output from [12]ps(1) is organized > > > in to a number of columns. PID is the process ID discussed earlier. > > > PIDs are assigned starting from 1, go up to 65536, and wrap around > > ^^^^^ > > > back to the beginning when you run out. TT shows the tty the program > > > is running on, and can safely be ignored for the moment. STAT shows > > > > This is confusing. In the example above (output from ps) is > > "72210 p0 R+ 0:00.00 ps", > > ^^^^^ > > and in the example below (outpout from top) is > > "last pid: 72257; load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.03 up 0+13:38:33 22:39:10" > > ^^^^^ > > > > So after a while of investigation I found out that on my computer there > > also are processes with PID higher than 65536. The highest value I have > > seen was 99651. After a while, new processes got numbers around 500. > > > > So I think that "65536" should be changed to "99999", if 99999 is the > > right value. > > Yep, 99999 is the correct value, as witnessed by the PID_MAX constant > in <sys/proc.h>. > > Patch attached for the convenience of doc committers. > > G'luck, > Peter > > -- > I am not the subject of this sentence. > > Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.55 > diff -u -r1.55 chapter.sgml > --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml 11 Jan 2002 02:50:21 -0000 1.55 > +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml 22 Jan 2002 12:11:18 -0000 > @@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ > <para>As you can see in this example, the output from &man.ps.1; is > organized in to a number of columns. <literal>PID</literal> is the > process ID discussed earlier. PIDs are assigned starting from 1, go up > - to 65536, and wrap around back to the beginning when you run out. > + to 99999, and wrap around back to the beginning when you run out. > <literal>TT</literal> shows the tty the program is running on, and can > safely be ignored for the moment. <literal>STAT</literal> shows the > program's state, and again, can be safely ignored. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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