FS#37637 - [man-pages] man(5) proc page out of date?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Monday, 04 November 2013, 15:01 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 23 December 2013, 20:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
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Details

I'm not 100% sure of this but it looks like at least the man(5) proc page is out of date, or at least incorrect.

I have man-pages 3.54-1

man(5) proc says:


/proc/kcore
This file represents the physical memory of the system and is stored in the ELF core file format. With this pseudo-file, and an unstripped kernel (/usr/src/linux/vmlinux)
binary, GDB can be used to examine the current state of any kernel data structures.

The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus 4KB.





that last part is not correct, when catting /proc/kcore it went up to 54GB and then I ran out of space, but i only have 8GB RAM.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 23 December 2013, 20:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 04 November 2013, 16:42 GMT
You should report this upstream.

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