On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:41 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:04:03 -0500, Paul M. Bucalo > <pmbuc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My research so far on the Web shows references > > to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, but this doesn't > > exist in my environment. I suspect because I don't have the kernel > > source installed. > > Just so you know, there used to be a "kernel-sourcecode" package, > but that has been dropped in favor of just the plain kernel*.src.rpm > source package. Certainly you can find the documents in there, > but it's not very convienient if you're just after documentation. I was made aware of this. Progress, I guess. :0/ > But there is also a kernel-doc package which you can easily install. > > yum install kernel-doc > > You'll then find that document and more under the directory, > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.10/Documentation > > (or whatever kernel version you have). Thank, Deron. That's a lot of help. A list member already pointed to me to an on-line mirror of the Documentation tree, so I was able to look through the proc.txt file. Skimpy, but I guess it's a start. I'm still better off for having the document local, though. I appreciate the info. Paul
