Re: [RFA] New command "info proc" for Linux

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:07:39 -0800
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > Michael, please don't forget the documentation.  Thanks.
> >
> > Not straightforward.  Couple of issues:
> >
> > 1) The old implementation of the "info proc" command was
> > poorly documented -- many of the documented sub-commands
> > were never implemented.  And the command was only available
> > on "/proc" systems (real ones, not Linux).
> >
> > 2) The stuff I've just added will ONLY work on Linux,
> > not on other ("real") /proc systems.
> 
> Does that mean the functionality of this command differs on these two
> classes of systems?  If so, we could:
> 
>  (a) document the functionality on both classes, telling which parts
>  work on what systems;
> 
> or
> 
>  (b) document the GNU/Linux functionality that you just added, and
>  leave the docs of what the command does on ``real'' /proc systems as
>  it is now.
> 
> The latter will probably be easier for you (no need to figure out code
> written by someone else ;-), and it doesn't make the situation worse
> than it is now.  So I won't object if you do only (b).  (If you do, it
> is possible that the Linux-specific docs could go into a new
> subsection of the "Native" node, where system-specific features are
> described.
> 
> Does that address your concerns?

Yeah, except I don't know how to make a nnew node, 
and I would have to think about where to put it.  ;-)