Bug 55221
| Summary: | ps(1) man page nit - description of "state" field | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | rdm <rdm> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Christian Brueffer <brueffer> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
State Changed From-To: open->patched Slightly modified patch committed to -CURRENT, MFC to come. Thanks! Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->brueffer MFC reminder State Changed From-To: patched->closed MFC done. |
The ps(1) manual page says: The state is given by a sequence of letters, for example, "RWNA". The first letter indicates the run state of the process: D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninterruptible) wait. ... Additional characters after these, if any, indicate additional state information: + The process is in the foreground process group of its control terminal. ... This description is faulty. Given that the "additional characters" may not be letters, the initial description should be changed to (something like): The state is given by a sequence of characters, for example, "RWNA". The first character (always a letter) indicates the run state of the process: ... Fix: as described above Note: This error is also present in the FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and 5.1-RELEASE man pages, as shown on the FreeBSD web site. How-To-Repeat: man ps