Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:07:14 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation |
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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.
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