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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-10-01 13:40:23 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-10-01 13:40:23 +0000
commit2fb4b1db523be5192a022df0dfc49f14648cc750 (patch)
tree1ad118f3c13432de42a8ef0787ddf1cc9095244e /sbin/mount_procfs
parent604e45f4cd13f2bdedc7ce5e99d47cf4c10f4fb6 (diff)
New sentence, new line. By Robert Elz with minimal fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/mount_procfs')
-rw-r--r--sbin/mount_procfs/mount_procfs.832
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount_procfs/mount_procfs.8 b/sbin/mount_procfs/mount_procfs.8
index 7ecadf9d788..e1d6b7b7200 100644
--- a/sbin/mount_procfs/mount_procfs.8
+++ b/sbin/mount_procfs/mount_procfs.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: mount_procfs.8,v 1.22 2002/05/31 16:48:28 atatat Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: mount_procfs.8,v 1.23 2002/10/01 13:40:44 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -68,13 +68,14 @@ Options are specified with a
flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
See the
.Xr mount 8
-man page for possible generic options and their meanings. Currently, one
-procfs-specific option is defined, the
+man page for possible generic options and their meanings.
+Currently, one procfs-specific option is defined, the
.Cm linux
-option. This option enables a few extra features that are compatible
-with the proc filesystem as implemented in Linux. This option can
-be used if you run Linux binaries that need Linux-specific features
-in the proc filesystem (see also
+option.
+This option enables a few extra features that are compatible
+with the proc filesystem as implemented in Linux.
+This option can be used if you run Linux binaries that need
+Linux-specific features in the proc filesystem (see also
.Xr compat_linux 8 ) .
.El
.Pp
@@ -86,7 +87,8 @@ In addition, the special entries
.Pa curproc
and
.Pa self
-reference the current process. The
+reference the current process.
+The
.Pa self
symlink appears for compatibility with the Linux procfs implementation.
.Pp
@@ -94,12 +96,11 @@ Each directory contains several files.
.Bl -tag -width status
.It Pa cmdline
This file is readonly and returns null-terminated strings
-corresponding to the process' command line arguments. For
-a system or zombie process, this file contains only a string
+corresponding to the process' command line arguments.
+For a system or zombie process, this file contains only a string
with the name of the process.
.It Pa ctl
-a writeonly file which supports a variety
-of control operations.
+a writeonly file which supports a variety of control operations.
Control commands are written as strings to the
.Pa ctl
file.
@@ -138,9 +139,10 @@ or to start another copy of the process.
A map of the process' virtual memory.
.It Pa maps
A map of the process' virtual memory in a form like the
-proc filesystem as implemented in Linux. Note that the paths
-corresponding to file backed mappings will not be present unless
-the kernel was built with the NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE option.
+proc filesystem as implemented in Linux.
+Note that the paths corresponding to file backed mappings will
+not be present unless the kernel was built with the
+NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE option.
.It Pa mem
The complete virtual memory image of the process.
Only those addresses which exist in the process can be accessed.