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diff --git a/share/man/man5/linprocfs.5 b/share/man/man5/linprocfs.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 23578c058af9..000000000000 --- a/share/man/man5/linprocfs.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -.\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" Written by Garrett Wollman -.\" This file is in the public domain. -.\" -.Dd November 13, 2019 -.Dt LINPROCFS 5 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm linprocfs -.Nd Linux process file system -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.Bd -literal -linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 -.Ed -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The Linux process file system, or -.Nm , -emulates a subset of Linux' process file system and is required for -the complete operation of some Linux binaries. -.Pp -The -.Nm -provides a two-level view of process space. -At the highest level, processes themselves are named, according to -their process ids in decimal, with no leading zeros. -There is also a special node called -.Pa self -which always refers to the process making the lookup request. -.Pp -Each node is a directory containing several files: -.Bl -tag -width status -.It Pa exe -A reference to the vnode from which the process text was read. -This can be used to gain access to the process' symbol table, -or to start another copy of the process. -.It Pa mem -The complete virtual memory image of the process. -Only those addresses which exist in the process can be accessed. -Reads and writes to this file modify the process. -Writes to the text segment remain private to the process. -.El -.Pp -Each node is owned by the process's user, and belongs to that user's -primary group, except for the -.Pa mem -node, which belongs to the -.Li kmem -group. -.Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /compat/linux/proc/self/XXXXXXX -compact -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc -The normal mount point for the -.Nm . -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo -CPU vendor and model information in human-readable form. -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc/meminfo -System memory information in human-readable form. -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc/pid -A directory containing process information for process -.Pa pid . -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc/self -A directory containing process information for the current process. -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc/self/exe -The executable image for the current process. -.It Pa /compat/linux/proc/self/mem -The complete virtual address space of the current process. -.El -.Sh EXAMPLES -To mount a -.Nm -file system on -.Pa /compat/linux/proc : -.Pp -.Dl "mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc" -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr mount 2 , -.Xr unmount 2 , -.Xr linux 4 , -.Xr procfs 5 , -.Xr pseudofs 9 -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Nm -first appeared in -.Fx 4.0 . -.Sh AUTHORS -.An -nosplit -The -.Nm -was derived from -.Nm procfs -by -.An Pierre Beyssac . -This manual page was written by -.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav , -based on the -.Xr procfs 5 -manual page by -.An Garrett Wollman . |