Documentation: missing proc/$PID/stat field

PATCH New Leonardo Chiquitto 1 participant 1 message Nov 20, 2007

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2007-11-20 16:41 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Documentation: missing proc/$PID/stat field

Hello,

There's a missing field in the /proc/$PID/stat output documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
I couldn't find a proper description for the field, but here's a patch
documenting it as an obsolete value.

Leonardo

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +1 -0

index e5c1df5..7ecfa23 100644
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ Table 1-3: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.22-rc3)
   priority      priority level
   nice          nice level
   num_threads   number of threads
+  it_real_value	(obsolete, always 0)
   start_time    time the process started after system boot
   vsize         virtual memory size
   rss           resident set memory size