From 7207cf2e3763267d2352b4d7cf39d56ed67e4379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David van Moolenbroek Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:34:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ps(1) man page: mem/kmem are no longer used --- man/man1/ps.1 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man1/ps.1 b/man/man1/ps.1 index b7c4f6ce4..c7d05212c 100644 --- a/man/man1/ps.1 +++ b/man/man1/ps.1 @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ explained below). The long listing contains: CMD Command line arguments of the process. .PP .PP -The files \fI/dev/{mem,kmem}\fR are used to read the system tables and command -line arguments from. Terminal names in \fI/dev\fR are used to generate the +The \fI/proc\fR file system is used to obtain the process information. +Terminal names in \fI/dev\fR are used to generate the mnemonic names in the TTY column, so \fIps\fR is independent of terminal naming conventions. .SH NOTES -- 2.44.0