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

William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06T14:07:25Z

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:11:18 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Some of the 2.4 semantics just don't make sense. I would not find it
>> difficult to explain what I believe correct semantics to be in a written
>> document.

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> IMO this is a must for such files (and be it only some comments above
> the code implementing them). I'm afraid that statm is carrying too much
> historical baggage, though -- you would add yet another interpretation
> of those 7 fields.
> Tools reading statm would have to be updated anyway, so I'd rather
> think about what could be done with a new (or just different) file.

Okay, could you write up a "specification" for what you want reported,
then I can cook up a new file or some such for you?

Thanks.

-- wli