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Re: procfs -- Too Much Info

From Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: procfs -- Too Much Info
Date 2025-02-07 20:18 +0000
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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! 

"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?

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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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