From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:28:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <276140000.1091813324@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091803883.1231.2502.camel@cube>
--On Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51:24 -0400 Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 12:34, Roger Luethi wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:58:43 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> > > Hardly. All I was asking this time was to have a documentation fix
>> > > merged, though.
>> >
>> > Just delete the documentation. I certainly never use it.
>>
>> It wasn't written for you.
>
> OK, but the statm file was. (well, for the maintainer
> of procps a decade ago)
>
> Everybody else can parse ps output.
I don't think that's necessarily a good idea - access to lower level
data would be nice. What's the harm in fixing the docs, anyway?
M.
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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:28:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <276140000.1091813324@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091803883.1231.2502.camel@cube>
--On Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51:24 -0400 Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 12:34, Roger Luethi wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:58:43 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> > > Hardly. All I was asking this time was to have a documentation fix
>> > > merged, though.
>> >
>> > Just delete the documentation. I certainly never use it.
>>
>> It wasn't written for you.
>
> OK, but the statm file was. (well, for the maintainer
> of procps a decade ago)
>
> Everybody else can parse ps output.
I don't think that's necessarily a good idea - access to lower level
data would be nice. What's the harm in fixing the docs, anyway?
M.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-06 1:11 [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 3:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 9:40 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 10:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 12:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 12:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 12:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 12:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 13:57 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 13:57 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 14:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 15:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 15:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:02 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 14:02 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 16:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 17:08 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 17:08 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 15:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 15:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 20:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 20:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 21:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 21:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-07 17:37 ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-07 17:37 ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-06 12:58 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 12:58 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 15:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 15:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 14:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 14:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 16:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 16:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 16:34 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 16:34 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 14:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 17:28 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2004-08-06 17:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 18:21 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 18:21 ` Roger Luethi
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2004-08-05 17:10 Roger Luethi
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