Bug 143850

Summary:	procfs(5) manpage for status > controlling terminal is incorrect
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Slaven Rezic <slaven>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Joel Dahl <joel>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Slaven Rezic 2010-02-12 22:10:05 UTC

	The procfs(5) manpage documents that the 6th field of the
	process status output is "major,minor of the controlling
	terminal, or -1,-1 if there is no controlling terminal".

	However experiments and the source code in
	/usr/src/sys/fs/procfs/procfs_status.c show that the contents
	of this field is the devname, or "-" if there is no
	controlling terminal. This was apparently changed in revision
	1.56 of this file, with the commit message "Don't export
	major,minor, instead export tty name."

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2010-02-13 05:05:46 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

documentation PR, it seems.

Comment 2 Joel Dahl freebsd_committer

2013-04-22 12:04:11 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->joel

Take.

Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2013-04-22 21:15:05 UTC

Author: joel (doc committer)
Date: Mon Apr 22 20:14:57 2013
New Revision: 249778
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/249778

Log:
  Update description of process status output.
  
  PR:		143850
  Submitted by:	Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

Modified:
  head/share/man/man5/procfs.5

Modified: head/share/man/man5/procfs.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/procfs.5	Mon Apr 22 19:38:56 2013	(r249777)
+++ head/share/man/man5/procfs.5	Mon Apr 22 20:14:57 2013	(r249778)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" Written by Garrett Wollman
 .\" This file is in the public domain.
 .\"
-.Dd September 22, 2009
+.Dd April 22, 2013
 .Dt PROCFS 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -155,9 +155,10 @@ process group id
 .It
 session id
 .It
-.Ar major , Ns Ar minor
+device name
 of the controlling terminal, or
-.Dv -1,-1
+a minus sign
+.Pq Dq -
 if there is no controlling terminal.
 .It
 a list of process flags:
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Comment 4 Joel Dahl freebsd_committer

2013-04-22 21:15:07 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I've updated the manpage according to your suggestions. Thanks for the bug 
report.