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| author | Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-10-17 12:44:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-10-17 12:46:00 +0000 |
| commit | 70774c637b87eac1d9a94bb960e6f5242dad9e43 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ecf2cf0a41a1fca0b624e0da6ff56fc25797019 | |
| parent | 99f563ed76f49c541e587a2f81bc43c62c86c0e5 (diff) | |
| download | src-70774c637b87eac1d9a94bb960e6f5242dad9e43.tar.gz src-70774c637b87eac1d9a94bb960e6f5242dad9e43.zip | |
procfs: Document as deprecated
Update the procfs(5) man page to clarify that it's deprecated.
Reviewed By: bcr, 0mp (earlier version)
Sponsored By: EPSRC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22275
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/procfs.5 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/procfs.5 b/share/man/man5/procfs.5 index 8532762a154e..37da9cf82e4b 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/procfs.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/procfs.5 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" Written by Garrett Wollman .\" This file is in the public domain. .\" -.Dd March 4, 2017 +.Dd October 17, 2021 .Dt PROCFS 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bf -symbolic +This functionality is deprecated. +Users are advised to use +.Xr libprocstat 3 +and +.Xr kvm 3 +instead. +.Ef +.Pp The process file system, or .Nm , implements a view of the system process table inside the file system. |