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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 3f4b226572e7..8756a07f4dc3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ Table 1-3: Kernel info in /proc mounts Mounted filesystems net Networking info (see text) partitions Table of partitions known to the system - pci Depreciated info of PCI bus (new way -> /proc/bus/pci/, + pci Deprecated info of PCI bus (new way -> /proc/bus/pci/, decoupled by lspci (2.4) rtc Real time clock scsi SCSI info (see text) @@ -1138,6 +1138,13 @@ determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. +maps_protect +------------ + +Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and +"smaps". When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to +readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process. + 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem ----------------------------------------------- |
