(split) LDP_man-pages: update original to v3.34.

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diff --git a/original/man5/proc.5 b/original/man5/proc.5
index b8f4ff6..6abdd8c 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man5/proc.5
+++ b/original/man5/proc.5
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 .\" to see what information could be imported from that file
 .\" into this file.
 .\"
-.TH PROC 5 2010-06-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PROC 5 2011-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 proc \- process information pseudo-file system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ unless the process is a zombie.
 In the latter case, there is nothing in this file:
 that is, a read on this file will return 0 characters.
 The command-line arguments appear in this file as a set of
-null-separated strings,
-with a further null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) after the last string.
+strings separated by null bytes (\(aq\\0\(aq),
+with a further null byte after the last string.
 .TP
 .IR /proc/[pid]/coredump_filter " (since kernel 2.6.23)"
 See
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ and you have a working filter.
 .I /proc/self/fd/N
 is approximately the same as
 .I /dev/fd/N
-in some Unix and Unix-like systems.
+in some UNIX and UNIX-like systems.
 Most Linux MAKEDEV scripts symbolically link
 .I /dev/fd
 to
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ setting for the process.
 .\"       CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
 .TP
 .I /proc/[pid]/root
-Unix and Linux support the idea of a per-process root of the
+UNIX and Linux support the idea of a per-process root of the
 file system, set by the
 .BR chroot (2)
 system call.
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ Virtual memory size in bytes.
 \fIrss\fP %ld
 Resident Set Size: number of pages the process has in real memory.
 This is just the pages which
-count towards text, data, or stack space.
+count toward text, data, or stack space.
 This does not include pages
 which have not been demand-loaded in, or which are swapped out.
 .TP
@@ -949,6 +949,9 @@ Thread group ID (i.e., Process ID).
 Thread ID (see
 .BR gettid (2)).
 .IP *
+.IR PPid :
+PID of parent process.
+.IP *
 .IR TracerPid :
 PID of process tracing this process (0 if not being traced).
 .IP *
@@ -968,7 +971,8 @@ Peak virtual memory size.
 Virtual memory size.
 .IP *
 .IR VmLck :
-Locked memory size.
+Locked memory size (see
+.BR mlock (3)).
 .IP *
 .IR VmHWM :
 Peak resident set size ("high water mark").
@@ -988,6 +992,17 @@ Page table entries size (since Linux 2.6.10).
 .IR Threads :
 Number of threads in process containing this thread.
 .IP *
+.IR SigQ :
+This field contains two slash-separated numbers that relate to
+queued signals for the real user ID of this process.
+The first of these is the number of currently queued
+signals for this real user ID, and the second is the
+resource limit on the number of queued signals for this process
+(see the description of
+.BR RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
+in
+.BR getrlimit (2)).
+.IP *
 .IR SigPnd ", " ShdPnd :
 Number of signals pending for thread and for process as a whole (see
 .BR pthreads (7)
@@ -1125,7 +1140,7 @@ are the same as those provided by :
 .in +4n
 .nf
 
-cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config
+cat /lib/modules/$(uname \-r)/build/.config
 .fi
 .in
 .IP
@@ -1487,7 +1502,7 @@ sl  local_address rem_address   st tx_queue rx_queue tr rexmits  tm\->when uid
 .fi
 .TP
 .I /proc/net/unix
-Lists the Unix domain sockets present within the system and their
+Lists the UNIX domain sockets present within the system and their
 status.
 The format is:
 .nf
@@ -1504,7 +1519,7 @@ Here "Num" is the kernel table slot number, "RefCount" is the number
 of users of the socket, "Protocol" is currently always 0, "Flags"
 represent the internal kernel flags holding the status of the
 socket.
-Currently, type is always "1" (Unix domain datagram sockets are
+Currently, type is always "1" (UNIX domain datagram sockets are
 not yet supported in the kernel).
 \&"St" is the internal state of the
 socket and Path is the bound path (if any) of the socket.
@@ -1690,11 +1705,11 @@ Number of forks since boot.
 .TP
 \fIprocs_running 6\fP
 Number of processes in runnable state.
-(Linux 2.5.45 onwards.)
+(Linux 2.5.45 onward.)
 .TP
 \fIprocs_blocked 2\fP
 Number of processes blocked waiting for I/O to complete.
-(Linux 2.5.45 onwards.)
+(Linux 2.5.45 onward.)
 .RE
 .TP
 .I /proc/swaps
@@ -2113,7 +2128,7 @@ a single message written on a System V message queue.
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
 This file defines the system-wide limit on the number of
 message queue identifiers.
-(This file is only present in Linux 2.4 onwards.)
+(This file is only present in Linux 2.4 onward.)
 .TP
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb
 This file defines a system-wide parameter used to initialize the
@@ -2205,17 +2220,17 @@ is the default value for
 .IR console_loglevel .
 .TP
 .IR /proc/sys/kernel/pty " (since Linux 2.6.4)"
-This directory contains two files relating to the number of Unix 98
-pseudo-terminals (see
+This directory contains two files relating to the number of UNIX 98
+pseudoterminals (see
 .BR pts (4))
 on the system.
 .TP
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max
-This file defines the maximum number of pseudo-terminals.
+This file defines the maximum number of pseudoterminals.
 .TP
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr
 This read-only file
-indicates how many pseudo-terminals are currently in use.
+indicates how many pseudoterminals are currently in use.
 .TP
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/random
 This directory
@@ -2289,7 +2304,7 @@ This value defaults to
 .BR SHMMAX .
 .TP
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
-(available in Linux 2.4 and onwards)
+(available in Linux 2.4 and onward)
 This file
 specifies the system-wide maximum number of System V shared memory
 segments that can be created.
@@ -2562,7 +2577,7 @@ Select either according to your policy of failover.
 .\" The following is from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
 The value in this file controls how aggressively the kernel will swap
 memory pages.
-Higher values increase agressiveness, lower values
+Higher values increase aggressiveness, lower values
 decrease aggressiveness.
 The default value is 60.
 .TP