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From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
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Subject: ps(1) man page nit - description of "state" field
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>Number:         55221
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ps(1) man page nit - description of "state" field
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    brueffer
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 03 15:30:01 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    Mon Aug 11 22:35:28 CEST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Mon Aug 11 22:35:28 CEST 2003
>Originator:     Rich Morin
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Canta Forda Computer Laboratory
>Environment:

        FreeBSD cfcl.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0:
        Sat Nov 16 12:01:18 PST 2002
        rdm@cfcl.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CFCL  i386

>Description:

	The ps(1) manual page says:

	  The state is given by a sequence of letters, for example, "RWNA".
	  The first letter indicates the run state of the process:

	    D       Marks a process in disk (or other short term,
	            uninterruptible) wait.
	    ...

	  Additional characters after these, if any, indicate additional
	  state information:

	    +       The process is in the foreground process group of its
	            control terminal.
	    ...

	This description is faulty.  Given that the "additional characters"
	may not be letters, the initial description should be changed to
	(something like):

	  The state is given by a sequence of characters, for example,
	  "RWNA".  The first character (always a letter) indicates the
	  run state of the process:
	  ...

>How-To-Repeat:

	man ps

>Fix:

	as described above

        Note: This error is also present in the FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and
	      5.1-RELEASE man pages, as shown on the FreeBSD web site.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->patched 
State-Changed-By: brueffer 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 5 12:32:01 CEST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Slightly modified patch committed to -CURRENT, MFC to come. Thanks! 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->brueffer 
Responsible-Changed-By: brueffer 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 5 12:32:01 CEST 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
MFC reminder 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=55221 
State-Changed-From-To: patched->closed 
State-Changed-By: brueffer 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 11 22:35:03 CEST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
MFC done. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=55221 
>Unformatted:
