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authormpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-14 19:09:58 +0000
committermpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-14 19:09:58 +0000
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Update procfs(5) to reflect reality a little better. Clsoes PR# 2136.
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/procfs.5 b/share/man/man5/procfs.5
index ab4666d..bda70d1 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/procfs.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/procfs.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: procfs.5,v 1.2 1994/08/10 20:03:54 wollman Exp $
+.\" $Id: procfs.5,v 1.3 1996/12/09 07:45:50 mpp Exp $
.\" Written by Garrett Wollman
.\" This file is in the public domain.
.\"
@@ -37,13 +37,17 @@ which always refers to the process making the lookup request.
.Pp
Each node is a directory which contains the following entries:
.Bl -tag -width fpregsxx
-.It Pa file
-the executable image (not currently implemented)
-.It Pa status
-the process's current status
.It Pa ctl
used to send control messages to the process, such as might be used by
a debugger
+.It Pa etype
+the type of the current executable image
+.It Pa file
+the executable image
+.It Pa fpregs
+the process floating point register set
+.It Pa map
+map of the process' address space
.It Pa mem
the complete virtual address space of the process
.It Pa note
@@ -53,6 +57,8 @@ used to send signals to the process group that the process belongs to
(not currently implemented)
.It Pa regs
the process register set
+.It Pa status
+the process's current status
.El
.Pp
Each node is owned by the process's user, and belongs to that user's
@@ -60,7 +66,7 @@ primary group, except for the
.Pa mem
node, which belongs to the
.Li kmem
-group instead. (This is not yet true, but will be eventually.)
+group instead.
.Pp
This manual page should eventually document what you can do with all
these nodes.
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