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Michael Kerrisk ccdc8958ae proc.5: Correct kernel version number for /proc/PID/{uid_map,gid_map}
These files were introduced in 3.5, not 3.6.

Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-09-13 20:15:55 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b69f9c729 proc.5: Describe format for lines in /proc/PID/uid_map file 2014-09-13 20:15:55 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk 149eeb7b5e proc.5: Rework Eric's text on uid_map and gid_map
Consolidate the similar uid_map and gidmap text into one
piece.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-09-13 20:15:55 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk 7e07d9504e proc.5: wfix: s/since kernel/since Linux/ 2014-09-13 20:15:55 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman f6e171212e proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/uid_map and /proc/[pid]/gid_map
Document the user namespace files that report the mapping of UIDs
and GIDs between user namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-09-13 20:15:55 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk f082ada466 proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-09-13 20:15:55 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk bea08fec7e adjtimex.2, bind.2, cacheflush.2, clone.2, fallocate.2, fanotify_init.2, fanotify_mark.2, flock.2, futex.2, getdents.2, getpriority.2, getrlimit.2, gettid.2, gettimeofday.2, ioprio_set.2, kexec_load.2, migrate_pages.2, modify_ldt.2, mount.2, move_pages.2, mprotect.2, msgop.2, nfsservctl.2, perf_event_open.2, pread.2, ptrace.2, recvmmsg.2, rename.2, restart_syscall.2, sched_setattr.2, send.2, shmop.2, shutdown.2, sigaction.2, signalfd.2, syscalls.2, timer_create.2, timerfd_create.2, tkill.2, vmsplice.2, wait.2, aio_init.3, confstr.3, exit.3, fmemopen.3, fopen.3, getaddrinfo.3, getauxval.3, getspnam.3, isalpha.3, isatty.3, mallinfo.3, malloc.3, mallopt.3, psignal.3, pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3, qecvt.3, queue.3, rtnetlink.3, strerror.3, strftime.3, toupper.3, towlower.3, towupper.3, initrd.4, locale.5, proc.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, ddp.7, fanotify.7, icmp.7, inotify.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, netdevice.7, netlink.7, path_resolution.7, rtld-audit.7, rtnetlink.7, sched.7, signal.7, socket.7, svipc.7, tcp.7, unix.7, ld.so.8: srcfix: Update FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-08-21 16:47:44 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk ef4f4031ca Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2014-08-19 12:01:21 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk 31036c4691 proc.5: Remove crufty text under 'timer_stats'
Reported-by: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-08-03 12:38:38 +02:00
Simon Paillard 3950d59a28 proc.5: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-08-03 12:22:55 +02:00
Simon Paillard 1bba635d69 proc.5: grfix
Missing verb

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-08-03 12:21:50 +02:00
Adrian Bunk c023a7f875 bdflush.2, fsync.2, sync.2, proc.5: Change "sync(1)" to "sync(8)"
This seems to be a remnant from the times when man-pages
shipped a sync(8).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-08-01 22:02:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 64dbd023ee proc.5: srcfix: Update /proc/vmcore FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 31293f37fc proc.5: Update /proc/PID/stat 'state' field documentation
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d5866b34dd proc.5: srcfix: Remove obsolete FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a5d02d77dc proc.5: Document /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_kbytes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cd7b6c4020 proc.5: Rework discussion of CommitLimit and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eac5ee9244 proc.5: Improve discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c82878a9f proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e0fdc57cff proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ef2eb7e0cf proc.5: srcfix: Add FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 62e4a418f0 proc.5: Rework formatting of /proc/PID/stat list
Make the field numbers more prominent.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 082bf5b895 proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 426bc8d725 proc.5: Improve description of /proc/PID/stat fields added in Linux 3.3 and 3.5
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0be30a547f proc.5: Fix kernel version numbers for /proc/PID/stat fields
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 71eae89536 proc.5: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
jchaloup 12449ae3a2 proc.5: add missing proc stats fields
Adding missing proc stats fields from https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, caption: Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7). Distribution: Fedora 20. Man-pages: man-pages-3.67.

Signed-off-by: jchaloup <jchaloup@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk afb7b014e2 proc.5: Document /proc/PID/syscall
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c2905d1be proc.5: Document /proc/PID/personality
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6975c16e3b proc.5: Note that /proc/PID/cmdline is read-only
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 32d7ef0088 proc.5: Document /proc/PID/comm
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b3fb99e8d3 proc.5: srcfix: add/update FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4c69c69283 proc.5: Refer to getauxval(3) in discussion of /proc/PID/auxv
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 59d566a952 proc.5: Document /proc/kpageflags
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ff56ac8b6f proc.5: Document /proc/kpagecount
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b0aa1e5111 proc.5: Document /proc/PID/pagemap
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-10 12:18:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c77eace5b1 iconv.1, ldd.1, connect.2, dup.2, epoll_ctl.2, eventfd.2, fallocate.2, fcntl.2, getitimer.2, inotify_add_watch.2, open.2, pipe.2, poll.2, sendmmsg.2, set_tid_address.2, shmop.2, signalfd.2, splice.2, syscalls.2, syslog.2, tee.2, vmsplice.2, ether_aton.3, mallopt.3, printf.3, profil.3, charmap.5, proc.5, epoll.7, inotify.7, libc.7, pipe.7, sched.7, socket.7, udplite.7, iconvconfig.8, ld.so.8: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-07-08 16:14:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 31987bef1b proc.5: Replace /proc/sys/kernel/printk discussion with reference to syslog(2)
It makes more sense to have the /proc/sys/kernel/printk with
the related material in syslog(2).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-23 10:35:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a3fc6130b5 proc.5: Rewrite /proc/sys/kernel/printk description
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-23 10:35:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f8d4d3171 proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-23 10:35:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 83114d0ae6 proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-23 10:35:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eb9a0b2f75 intro.1, gettimeofday.2, mkdir.2, nice.2, setresuid.2, stime.2, adjtime.3, getttyent.3, proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-18 15:38:13 +02:00
Simon Paillard a1fa36afd2 :eventfd.2, fallocate.2, open.2, sendmmsg.2, signalfd.2, proc.5, sched.7, socket.7, udplite.7: spfix: "behaviour": use American spelling "behavior" instead
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-17 07:27:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 91085d8525 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2014-06-14 08:03:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk df352acc94 proc.5: Add a brief description of /proc/fs
Reported-by: Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-06-12 15:15:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 000e10e84b proc.5: srcfix: Remove obsolete FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-31 06:34:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8660ef9f1d locale.1, adjtimex.2, clone.2, fork.2, getrlimit.2, remap_file_pages.2, set_mempolicy.2, swapon.2, a64l.3, adjtime.3, argz_add.3, bstring.3, envz_add.3, fpathconf.3, fseek.3, gcvt.3, getaddrinfo_a.3, getauxval.3, getnameinfo.3, getrpcent.3, getrpcport.3, getspnam.3, getutent.3, inet.3, inet_net_pton.3, key_setsecret.3, makecontext.3, makedev.3, malloc_trim.3, mq_getattr.3, newlocale.3, nl_langinfo.3, perror.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3, pthread_attr_setguardsize.3, pthread_attr_setscope.3, pthread_attr_setstack.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_create.3, pthread_setname_np.3, pthread_setschedparam.3, pthread_setschedprio.3, pthread_sigqueue.3, rcmd.3, re_comp.3, resolver.3, rexec.3, rtime.3, scandir.3, setlocale.3, setnetgrent.3, sigvec.3, tsearch.3, core.5, proc.5, charsets.7, locale.7: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-28 15:42:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d5ad4b5838 proc.5: 'pid_max' is a system-wide limit on number of threads and processes
Since PIDs > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max are not allocated, this
file thus also imposes a system-wide limit on the number of
threads and processes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fda70f5bf9 proc.5: Minor rewording
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:34:11 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b5408a0f00 proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:54:09 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 723e333ca9 proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:48:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d6681273da proc.5: Add /proc/sys/kernel/{sched_rt_period_us,sched_rt_runtime_us}
Reference sched(7) for an explanation of these two files

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-14 20:45:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d6a569788c proc.5: wsfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-12 08:44:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f9f4b54c4c proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-11 08:59:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 86cf87d741 proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-11 08:58:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 726663fd9d bind.2, connect.2, create_module.2, delete_module.2, execve.2, get_robust_list.2, getpriority.2, getrusage.2, init_module.2, link.2, listen.2, mbind.2, open.2, poll.2, query_module.2, readlink.2, recv.2, remap_file_pages.2, sched_setaffinity.2, semop.2, send.2, stat.2, stime.2, syscall.2, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, remquo.3, rtime.3, sched_getcpu.3, stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3, strcasecmp.3, system.3, fd.4, proc.5, ip.7: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-08 11:31:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d4188904a proc.5: (Briefly) document /proc/timer_list
Text taken from kernel commit
289f480af87e45f7a6de6ba9b4c061c2e259fe98.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-08 11:26:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3c4f7af609 proc.5: Document /proc/timer_stats
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-08 11:26:54 +02:00
David Prévot 322d49fb51 proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-05 08:26:01 +02:00
Jan Moskyto Matejka d63ff76e2a proc.5: Improve description of /proc/stat 'intr' field
The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also
unnumbered interrupts.

(Change made in kernel commit
a2eddfa95919a730e0e5ed17e9c303fe5ba249cd)

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-23 20:40:00 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e6a110ef57 proc.5: Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{msgmax,msgmnb}
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-17 15:38:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d85d2ed8e6 proc.5: Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{shmall,shmmax}
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-17 15:38:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 76e0451c7d proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/clear_refs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 11:37:14 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e618d945d2 proc.5: /proc/PID/smaps is present only if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 09:20:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f0add2855 proc.5: Minor tweaks to Petr Gajdos's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 09:05:44 +02:00
Petr Gajdos 95fe794d41 proc.5: Improve /proc/[pid]/smaps entries description
Glued together from:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/362
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/18/46

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 08:04:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 67aac6fbce proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/stack
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-09 17:19:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fa1d49a63c Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2014-04-06 08:47:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 43a8bfc677 proc.5: srcfix: added FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b61d8f7a6d proc.5: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-26 14:01:16 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk f7c75128c0 proc.5: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-26 07:33:17 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7153dabd0e proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 09:02:51 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 68d86eac00 proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 05:33:25 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e231acbc56 proc.5: Remove redundant .fi tag
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-10 10:18:13 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f62685ed3 proc.5: srcfix: remove redundant .RE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-10 10:11:09 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 275f41e1f0 proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-10 09:59:47 +01:00
Yuri Kozlov 9d54c0875b proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-04 10:00:13 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 182673cff7 proc.5: SEE ALSO: Add some further kernel Documentation/sysctl files
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-31 07:03:04 +01:00
David Prévot a87838117c proc.5: spfix: American spelling
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-29 13:51:21 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2054f761a6 proc.5: Update discussion of wchan
Remove crufty reference to /etc/psdatabase in /proc/PID/stat.
Add /proc/PID/wchan.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/737452

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-24 11:13:48 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 1509ca0e37 proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/timers
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-20 10:33:23 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk f78ed33a65 madvise.2, perf_event_open.2, query_module.2, stat.2, sem_init.3, hpsa.4, rtc.4, st.4, elf.5, filesystems.5, proc.5, environ.7, man-pages.7, regex.7, units.7: Reword to avoid use of "etc."
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-18 23:58:39 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 14d7071359 lround.3, proc.5: Reword to avoid use of "etc." 2014-01-18 23:58:12 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk d35326474f Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2014-01-11 08:04:54 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 449dd4e2ab proc.5, unix.7: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-02 11:49:16 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk d102a67397 proc.5: Fix formula for CommitLimit under /proc/meminfo
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60991

Reported-by: <sworddragon2@aol.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-02 11:49:15 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 8fb0ddc0e1 proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-10-18 11:33:33 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 11256884de Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2013-09-17 08:27:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f042d149dd proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 16:27:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 817b5ec178 proc.5: Note block size used by /proc/partitions
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666972

Reported-by: A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 15:35:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ab222df40 proc.5: /proc/sys/fs/inode-max went away in Linux 2.4
Also, the 'preshrink' field in /proc/sys/fs/inode-state became
a dummy value in Linux 2.4.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60836

Reported-by: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 10:00:05 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ac8727b68c proc.5: Minor wording changes in introductory paragraph
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 09:41:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ee4a2b6ec intro.1, time.1, access.2, acct.2, alloc_hugepages.2, bind.2, chdir.2, chmod.2, chown.2, chroot.2, clone.2, close.2, execve.2, fallocate.2, fcntl.2, getdents.2, getrusage.2, getxattr.2, init_module.2, inotify_add_watch.2, ioprio_set.2, kcmp.2, link.2, listxattr.2, lseek.2, madvise.2, mkdir.2, mknod.2, mmap.2, mount.2, move_pages.2, msgctl.2, nfsservctl.2, open.2, pivot_root.2, quotactl.2, read.2, readlink.2, removexattr.2, rename.2, rmdir.2, semctl.2, setfsgid.2, setfsuid.2, setresuid.2, setuid.2, setup.2, setxattr.2, shmctl.2, splice.2, spu_create.2, stat.2, statfs.2, swapon.2, symlink.2, sync.2, sync_file_range.2, sysfs.2, truncate.2, umount.2, unlink.2, unshare.2, ustat.2, utime.2, utimensat.2, write.2, btree.3, errno.3, fexecve.3, ftw.3, futimes.3, get_nprocs_conf.3, getcwd.3, getdirentries.3, getmntent.3, glob.3, mkfifo.3, mq_open.3, readdir.3, realpath.3, recno.3, remove.3, sem_open.3, shm_open.3, statvfs.3, sysconf.3, telldir.3, tmpfile.3, cciss.4, initrd.4, pts.4, sk98lin.4, vcs.4, core.5, filesystems.5, proc.5, boot.7, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, cpuset.7, credentials.7, feature_test_macros.7, fifo.7, hier.7, inotify.7, intro.7, mq_overview.7, path_resolution.7, pipe.7, sem_overview.7, shm_overview.7, spufs.7, symlink.7, unix.7, uri.7, sync.8: Global fix: s/file system/filesystem/
Notwithstanding 24d01c530c,
"filesystem" is the form used by the great majority of man pages
outside the man-pages project and in a number of other sources,
so let's go with that.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 10:07:57 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e3fb076766 proc.5: Add rationale on drop_caches and note that it can hurt performance
See also http://lwn.net/Articles/562211/

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 09:32:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cb41e2e1df proc.5: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 08:06:05 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 41e1475c91 proc.5: Minor clarification
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 08:04:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk aeb7e78817 proc.5: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 08:04:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 68f1106697 proc.5: Small fixes to Peter Schiffer's /proc/PID/io patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-01 13:40:30 +02:00
Peter Schiffer 0ca2fc4d95 proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/io file
Attempt to document fields in the /proc/[pid]/io file, based on
the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text will probably
need some grammar corrections.

Signed-off-by: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-01 13:18:04 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b7a2ac549 proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/fd/ anon_inode symlinks
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-06-27 01:57:03 +02:00