Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation

Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06T17:28:44Z

--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.