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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index c23e5debda..f96d4982cd 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -18649,13 +18649,17 @@ modern FreeBSD systems. Many versions of SVR4 and compatible systems provide a facility called @samp{/proc} that can be used to examine the image of a running -process using file-system subroutines. If @value{GDBN} is configured -for an operating system with this facility, the command @code{info -proc} is available to report information about the process running -your program, or about any process running on your system. @code{info -proc} works only on SVR4 systems that include the @code{procfs} code. -This includes, as of this writing, @sc{gnu}/Linux, OSF/1 (Digital -Unix), Solaris, Irix, but not HP-UX, for example. +process using file-system subroutines. + +If @value{GDBN} is configured for an operating system with this +facility, the command @code{info proc} is available to report +information about the process running your program, or about any +process running on your system. This includes, as of this writing, +@sc{gnu}/Linux, OSF/1 (Digital Unix), Solaris, and Irix, but +not HP-UX, for example. + +This command may also work on core files that were created on a system +that has the @samp{/proc} facility. @table @code @kindex info proc |
