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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] procps: mysterious option
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 04:44:08
Message-Id: 20161215074353.4d6bd8fd6385bcce41caa34b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] procps: mysterious option by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 04:43:56 +0100 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> [16-12-14 17:07]:
3 > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:06:54 +0100 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 > > > Hi
5 > > >
6 > > > for the options "-nN" and "-d" the manpage of procps mentions
7 > > > the option "-f" is implied.
8 > > >
9 > > > For SYNOPSIS all possible options are summarized as:
10 > > > procinfo [ -dDSbrhv ] [ -nN ].
11 > > >
12 > > > Furthermore the option "-f" isn't explained anywhere.
13 > > >
14 > > > What I don't understand here ? ;)
15 > >
16 > > Is your man page out of date? From my man procinfo:
17 > >
18 > > SYNOPSIS
19 > > procinfo [ -fsmadiDSbrChv ] [ -nN ] [ -Ffile ]
20 > > ...
21 > > OPTIONS
22 > > -f Run procinfo continuously full-screen.
23 > >
24 > > =procinfo-18-r2 is installed here.
25 > >
26 > > Best regards,
27 > > Andrew Savchenko
28 >
29 > Hi Andrew,
30 >
31 > This is, what I have:
32 >
33 > * app-admin/procinfo
34 > Available versions: 18-r2
35 > Homepage: http://www.kozmix.org/src/
36 > Description: Displays some kernel stats and info on a running Linux system
37 >
38 > [I] app-admin/procinfo-ng
39 > Available versions: 2.0.304-r1
40 > Installed versions: 2.0.304-r1(05:40:40 01/10/15)
41 > Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/procinfo-ng/
42 > Description: Completely rewrite of the old system monitoring app procinfo
43 >
44 > Found 2 matches
45 >
46 > So, the *-ng seems not to match the installed manpage?
47 > Something is wrong here...
48
49 procinfo-ng indeed have incorrect man page, feel free to report
50 upstream, though it is inactive as well for ages.
51
52 Best regards,
53 Andrew Savchenko