From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268182AbUHFRn3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:43:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268218AbUHFRko (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:40:44 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.103]:46496 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268182AbUHFR3v (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:29:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:28:44 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Albert Cahalan , Roger Luethi cc: linux-kernel mailing list , linux-mm@kvack.org, wli@holomorphy.com Subject: Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation Message-ID: <276140000.1091813324@flay> In-Reply-To: <1091803883.1231.2502.camel@cube> References: <1091754711.1231.2388.camel@cube> <20040806094037.GB11358@k3.hellgate.ch> <1091797122.1231.2452.camel@cube> <20040806163428.GA31285@k3.hellgate.ch> <1091803883.1231.2502.camel@cube> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --On Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51:24 -0400 Albert Cahalan 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.