Re: [PATCH] proc.5: /proc/fs is not empty directory

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On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 04:54 PM, walter harms wrote:
>>
>> Am 05.06.2014 16:02, schrieb jchaloup:
>>>
>>> Man page for proc says:
>>> /proc/fs
>>>               Empty subdirectory.
>>>
>>> But ls says something else:
>>> $ ls /proc/fs/
>>> ext4  jbd2  nfs  nfsd
>>>
>>> In addition from
>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, caption: 1.9
>>> Ext4 file system parameters:
>>>
>>> Information about mounted ext4 file systems can be found in
>>> /proc/fs/ext4.
>>>
>>> This patch gives better description for the content. Open to give more
>>> description if someone knows more or where to find it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: jchaloup <jchaloup@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   man5/proc.5 |    2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
>>> index 8fd7b19..956760c 100644
>>> --- a/man5/proc.5
>>> +++ b/man5/proc.5
>>> @@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ Then filesystems contained in this file are tried
>>>   (excepted those that are marked with "nodev").
>>>   .TP
>>>   .I /proc/fs
>>> -Empty subdirectory.
>>> +Directory shows which file systems are exported.
>>>   .TP
>>>   .I /proc/ide
>>>   This directory
>>
>> hi,
>> exported sounds for me like nfs export. what is about:
>> "Information about mounted file systems" (copied and ajusted from
>> proc.txt)
>
> Fine for me.
>

Walter's suggestion seems a reasonable place to start. I added the following:

[[
Contains subdirectories that in turn contain files
with information about (certain) mounted filesystems.
]]

Cheers,

Michael

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