Proc 5 man is missing a bunch, but doesn't reference other pages

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So I just noticed something pretty annoying with Fedora’s man pages for /proc.
In most other distros, man 5 proc lists everything:
status, stat, cmdline, etc.

On Fedora, that page is chopped up into dozens of smaller ones like proc_pid_stat, proc_pid_status, and so on, but there’s zero indication of this in man 5 proc itself.

I only found them because I went looking for the field order in /proc/*/stat and had to use an online man page to get it. Then I ran locate proc | grep man and found /usr/share/man/man5/proc_* entries, and sure enough, man 5 proc_pid_stat had what was missing.

If the base page is split, it really needs a note saying “see also proc_pid_*” or something. Otherwise it just looks like the page is missing information.

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You can file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com or contact the maintainers.

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You could also use apropos to locate man pages:

~ ❯ apropos proc | grep -E '^proc'
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I use man -k /-K thanks anyways.

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Ah, OK, that works, too.

When you wrote that you discovered them with locate proc, I wanted to offer an alternative built for finding man pages.