Hi Tolga, On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Tolga Dalman <tolga.dalman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 08/13/12 09:35, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> while reading the /proc/[pid]/stat part in proc(5), I noticed two minor >>> issues that should be fixed: >>> >>> 1. The text reads: "flags %u (%lu before Linux 2.6.22) kernel flags word >>> of the process. For bit meanings, see the PF_* defines in >>> <linux/sched.h>." >>> >>> PF_* is obvisously wrong. It should be CLONE_*. >> >> I haven't looked closely, but I think PF_* is correct. Why do you think >> it's wrong? > > To my understanding, flags contains process flags (i.e., CLONE_*), which > are defined in <linux/sched.h>. PF_* flags, on the other hand, specify > protocol flags. Those are not related to <linux/sched.h> at all, but defined > in <bits/socket.h> Ahh -- yes, an easy mistake to make I think. The thing is there are two unrelated sets of constants in the PF_* namespace. Take a look in linux/sched.h to see the other set, which is (AFAICS) the set that is used in this /proc file. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
