Re: procfs -- Too Much Info

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: procfs -- Too Much Info
Date	2025-02-11 13:59 +0100
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On 2025-02-07 21:18, Jim Jackson wrote:
> On 2025-02-07, Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> What used to be a single proc(5) man page has now been broken out into
>>> over a hundred separate pages. You can find them with
>>>
>>>      man -s5 -k proc | grep ^proc
>>
>> GNU systems should learn the OpenBSD way of writing manuals.
> 
> Not so sure the GNU outfit has anything to do with these man pages.
> They'd have written it all in info!!!!
> 
> But here ....
> 
> $ man -s5 -k proc | grep ^proc
> proc (5)             - process information pseudo-filesystem
> procfs (5)           - process information pseudo-filesystem
> procmailex (5)       - procmail rcfile examples
> procmailrc (5)       - procmail rcfile
> procmailsc (5)       - procmail weighted scoring technique
> $
> 
> is all I get on a reasonably upto date Devuan (debian based) system.
> 
> But the "man -s 5 proc" page is huge 4520 lines!

Same here (openSUSE 15.6). Well, no, I get 3488 lines. Oh, wait, it 
depends on terminal width. Doh!

> 
> "Linux man-pages 6.03            2023-02-10                          proc(5)"
> 
> Mind you there are a lot of proc filesystem entries to document. Not
> sure what the OP is implying - not documenting them?

It is impossible to humanly read that and find something (something you 
do not know about previously).

I tried "info proc", and I get the manual on tcl proc, concatenated with 
the manual on proc(5). So, not an info page. And so no index with links.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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procfs -- Too Much Info Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-02 03:28 +0000
  Re: procfs -- Too Much Info Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-02-02 08:01 -0500
  Re: procfs -- Too Much Info Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-06 23:12 -0300
    Re: procfs -- Too Much Info Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-07 06:03 +0000
    Re: procfs -- Too Much Info Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2025-02-07 20:18 +0000
      Re: procfs -- Too Much Info Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-07 21:57 +0000
      Re: procfs -- Too Much Info Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2025-02-09 21:26 +0000
      Re: procfs -- Too Much Info "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-11 13:59 +0100

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