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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
Michael Kerrisk f75715e003 proc.5: Tweaks to Mike Frysinger's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-06-27 01:57:03 +02:00
Mike Frysinger d4529654b2 proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/fd/ symlinks a bit more
Describe the type:[inode] syntax used in this dir

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-06-27 01:19:01 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a177ca4e9 proc.5: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-06-12 14:56:27 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 043ce1b94e proc.5: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-06-12 14:56:27 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d2e6d7415 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2013-04-19 13:57:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 69ab425ef2 proc.5: Put /proc/PID/map_files text in right alphabetical location
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-17 08:47:59 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 18cdd0aca2 proc.5: Minor fixes to Pavel's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-17 07:55:02 +02:00
Pavel Emelyanov b4f89985b9 proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/map_files directory
This directory was added in Linux v3.3 and provides info about
files being mmap-ed in a way very similar to how /proc/[pid]/fd
works.

v2: Added examples of how links look like and noted dependency
on kernel config option CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-17 07:33:55 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ddcf25aaab proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/shm_rmid_forced
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-08 12:32:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ef4c35ecb proc.5: Refer to sched_rr_get_interval(2) for info on sched_rr_timeslice_ms
Since Linux 3.9, /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms can
be used to change the SCHED_RR quantum.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-08 12:32:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a7a8cc53df proc.5: Add reference to capabilities(7) for /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-08 12:32:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 33a0ccb293 intro.1, _syscall.2, access.2, arch_prctl.2, cacheflush.2, chown.2, clock_getres.2, clone.2, create_module.2, fcntl.2, flock.2, get_kernel_syms.2, get_robust_list.2, get_thread_area.2, getcpu.2, getpriority.2, getrlimit.2, getrusage.2, ioprio_set.2, kexec_load.2, madvise.2, mbind.2, migrate_pages.2, mknod.2, mmap.2, mount.2, move_pages.2, mprotect.2, open.2, pause.2, pciconfig_read.2, perf_event_open.2, prctl.2, ptrace.2, query_module.2, read.2, reboot.2, recv.2, s390_runtime_instr.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, send.2, set_mempolicy.2, setfsgid.2, setfsuid.2, sigaction.2, spu_create.2, spu_run.2, stime.2, swapon.2, syslog.2, timer_create.2, timer_getoverrun.2, times.2, tkill.2, umount.2, unimplemented.2, ustat.2, vm86.2, wait.2, abs.3, aio_read.3, aio_write.3, bsd_signal.3, catgets.3, clearenv.3, cmsg.3, dbopen.3, dirfd.3, dlopen.3, exec.3, fenv.3, ferror.3, fmemopen.3, fnmatch.3, fopen.3, futimes.3, getaddrinfo.3, getifaddrs.3, getipnodebyname.3, hsearch.3, if_nameindex.3, inet_pton.3, mblen.3, mbrlen.3, mbsrtowcs.3, mbtowc.3, mcheck.3, memfrob.3, mq_notify.3, netlink.3, posix_memalign.3, printf.3, pthread_attr_setscope.3, pthread_cleanup_push.3, pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3, pthread_self.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_setconcurrency.3, raise.3, resolver.3, rpc.3, rtime.3, rtnetlink.3, scanf.3, setbuf.3, setnetgrent.3, shm_open.3, sigpause.3, sigset.3, sigwait.3, sockatmark.3, strcasecmp.3, strcmp.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, strsignal.3, strverscmp.3, sysv_signal.3, termios.3, wcrtomb.3, wcsnlen.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcsrtombs.3, wctomb.3, wprintf.3, console_codes.4, cpuid.4, msr.4, rtc.4, sk98lin.4, st.4, tty.4, charmap.5, core.5, elf.5, hosts.equiv.5, proc.5, resolv.conf.5, services.5, slabinfo.5, arp.7, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, charsets.7, cpuset.7, ddp.7, epoll.7, feature_test_macros.7, futex.7, hier.7, icmp.7, inotify.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, man-pages.7, mdoc.7, mdoc.samples.7, netdevice.7, netlink.7, numa.7, packet.7, path_resolution.7, posixoptions.7, pthreads.7, raw.7, rtld-audit.7, rtnetlink.7, sem_overview.7, sigevent.7, socket.7, spufs.7, tcp.7, udp.7, unicode.7, uri.7, utf-8.7, intro.8, ldconfig.8, sync.8: Global fix: fix placement of word "only"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-01 14:53:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 90878f7c26 proc.5: wfix (mainly "only")
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-01 14:53:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3580a42f2f proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-01 14:53:46 +02:00
David Prévot 16e64bae16 proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-01 14:53:45 +02:00
Krzysztof Konopko 1391278030 proc.5: Simplify the example of printing out environ
The binutils package contains a very handy utility to
print out null-byte delimited strings from a file.  This
can replace a rather complex expression with cat(1)
provided as an example for printing out /proc/[pid]/environ.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-01 14:53:45 +02:00
Simon Paillard 182090db96 proc.5: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-04-01 14:53:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 128f43c79d proc.5: SEE ALSO: Add sysctl(8)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-03-25 12:10:44 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk a60894c598 proc.5: srcfix: Note commit (in 3.4) that added /proc/PID/maps "[stack:<num>]"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-03-17 11:13:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 21781757a0 proc.5: Update /proc/PID/maps example
Update to 64-bit example that includes "[heap]", "[stack],
and "[vdso]"

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-03-17 09:58:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b82eec868 proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-03-17 09:41:25 +01:00