Re: procfs -- Too Much Info

On 2025-02-07 21:18, Jim Jackson wrote:

On 2025-02-07, Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>

What used to be a single proc(5) man page has now been broken out into
over a hundred separate pages. You can find them with
>
     man -s5 -k proc | grep ^proc

>
GNU systems should learn the OpenBSD way of writing manuals.

 Not so sure the GNU outfit has anything to do with these man pages.
They'd have written it all in info!!!!
 But here ....
 $ man -s5 -k proc | grep ^proc
proc (5)             - process information pseudo-filesystem
procfs (5)           - process information pseudo-filesystem
procmailex (5)       - procmail rcfile examples
procmailrc (5)       - procmail rcfile
procmailsc (5)       - procmail weighted scoring technique
$
 is all I get on a reasonably upto date Devuan (debian based) system.
 But the "man -s 5 proc" page is huge 4520 lines!

Same here (openSUSE 15.6). Well, no, I get 3488 lines. Oh, wait, it depends on terminal width. Doh!

 "Linux man-pages 6.03            2023-02-10                          proc(5)"
 Mind you there are a lot of proc filesystem entries to document. Not
sure what the OP is implying - not documenting them?

It is impossible to humanly read that and find something (something you do not know about previously).
I tried "info proc", and I get the manual on tcl proc, concatenated with the manual on proc(5). So, not an info page. And so no index with links.
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Cheers, Carlos.