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

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

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

Seems reasonable to me.

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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.

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On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:12:11 -0300, Salvador Mirzo 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.

What’s the equivalent of procfs on OpenBSD? OtherBSD?

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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!

"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?

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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 20:18:00 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:

But the "man -s 5 proc" page is huge 4520 lines!

When I do this on those broken-out man pages:

for f in $(man -s5 -k proc | perl -lne 'if (/^(proc[a-z_-]+) /) { print $1; }'); do man $f; done | wc -l

I get 5287 lines in total.

For comparison, this

man -k perl | grep ^perl

reports 226 separate pages. And that separation has existed for a long
time.

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Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> 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.

Same here with an up-to-date Slackware 15.0 system.

Jerry

But the "man -s 5 proc" page is huge 4520 lines!

"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?

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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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