[3313] in Athena Bugs
Re: ps manual page; vax nfs packs 6.3B at least
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 28 02:52:37 1989
From: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 02:52:13 -0400
To: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: doc-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Emanuel 'Jay' Berkenbilt's message of Thu, 28 Sep 89 01:05:35 -0400,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
This message is a comment on a previous bug report and also suggestions
for improvement.
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 01:05:35 -0400
The manual page for ps says nothing about the optional kernel
name on the commadline. It only mentions the regular options
and the process id number.
Actually, it does mention it...
Here is an excerpt from the man page:
A second argument is taken to be the file containing the
system's namelist. Otherwise, /vmunix is used. A third
argument tells ps where to look for core if the k option is
given, instead of /vmcore. If a fourth argument is given,
it is taken to be the name of a swap file to use instead of
the default /dev/drum.
However, I would also argue that the synopsis should be changed from:
SYNOPSIS
ps [ acegklnstuvwxU# ]
to something like:
SYNOPSIS
ps [ acegklnstuvwxU# [ namelist [ core ] ] ]
-Richard
