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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 71347ae014..cf549870da 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -1745,6 +1745,19 @@ This is useful for analysing virtual memory behaviour. .\" FIXME more should be said about /proc/zoneinfo .RE .RE +.SH NOTES +Many strings (i.e., the environment and command line) are in +the internal format, with sub-fields terminated by null bytes ('\\0'), +so you +may find that things are more readable if you use \fIod \-c\fP or \fItr +"\\000" "\\n"\fP to read them. +Alternatively, \fIecho `cat <file>`\fP works well. + +This manual page is incomplete, possibly inaccurate, and is the kind +of thing that needs to be updated very often. +.\" .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +.\" The material on /proc/sys/fs and /proc/sys/kernel is closely based on +.\" kernel source documentation files written by Rik van Riel. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR cat (1), .BR find (1), @@ -1771,16 +1784,3 @@ This is useful for analysing virtual memory behaviour. .BR route (8) .br .I /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt -.SH CAVEATS -Note that many strings (i.e., the environment and command line) are in -the internal format, with sub-fields terminated by null bytes ('\\0'), -so you -may find that things are more readable if you use \fIod \-c\fP or \fItr -"\\000" "\\n"\fP to read them. -Alternatively, \fIecho `cat <file>`\fP works well. - -This manual page is incomplete, possibly inaccurate, and is the kind -of thing that needs to be updated very often. -.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -The material on /proc/sys/fs and /proc/sys/kernel is closely based on -kernel source documentation files written by Rik van Riel. |