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

[Martin J. Bligh]

--On Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51:24 -0400 Albert Cahalan <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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