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authorJim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>2013-11-11 00:00:00 -0600
committerCraig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>2013-11-25 20:57:32 +1100
commit675200b20b7e05d18dc2ddd03c4f0952a15480a9 (patch)
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downloadprocps-ng-675200b20b7e05d18dc2ddd03c4f0952a15480a9.tar.gz
top: expand the man page to include namespaces support
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
-rw-r--r--top/top.150
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/top/top.1 b/top/top.1
index 87659be..f25acff 100644
--- a/top/top.1
+++ b/top/top.1
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
.
.\" Document /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-.TH TOP 1 "March 2013" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
+.TH TOP 1 "November 2013" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -826,12 +826,46 @@ page available.
The number of threads associated with a process.
.TP 4
-42.\fB vMj \*(Em Major Page Fault Count Delta\fR
+42.\fB nsIPC \*(Em IPC namespace \fR
+The Inode of the namespace used to isolate interprocess communication (IPC)
+resources such as System V IPC objects and POSIX message queues.
+
+.TP 4
+43.\fB nsMNT \*(Em MNT namespace \fR
+The Inode of the namespace used to isolate filesystem mount points thus
+offering different views of the filesystem hierarchy.
+
+.TP 4
+44.\fB nsNET \*(Em NET namespace \fR
+The Inode of the namespace used to isolate resources such as network devices,
+IP addresses, IP routing, port numbers, etc.
+
+.TP 4
+45.\fB nsPID \*(Em PID namespace \fR
+The Inode of the namespace used to isolate process ID numbers
+meaning they need not remain unique.
+Thus, each such namespace could have its own 'init' (PID #1) to
+manage various initialization tasks and reap orphaned child processes.
+
+.TP 4
+46.\fB nsUSER \*(Em USER namespace \fR
+The Inode of the namespace used to isolate the user and group ID numbers.
+Thus, a process could have a normal unprivileged user ID outside a user
+namespace while having a user ID of 0, with full root privileges, inside
+that namespace.
+
+.TP 4
+47.\fB nsUTS \*(Em UTS namespace \fR
+The Inode of the namespace used to isolate hostname and NIS domain name.
+UTS simply means "UNIX Time-sharing System".
+
+.TP 4
+48.\fB vMj \*(Em Major Page Fault Count Delta\fR
The number of\fB major\fR page faults that have occurred since the
last update (see nMaj).
.TP 4
-43.\fB vMn \*(Em Minor Page Fault Count Delta\fR
+49.\fB vMn \*(Em Minor Page Fault Count Delta\fR
The number of\fB minor\fR page faults that have occurred since the
last update (see nMin).
@@ -1100,10 +1134,12 @@ This \*(CI can be used to alter the widths of the following fields:
.nf
\fI field default field default field default \fR
GID 5 GROUP 8 WCHAN 10
- RUID 5 RUSER 8
- SUID 5 SUSER 8
- UID 5 USER 8
- TTY 8
+ RUID 5 RUSER 8 nsIPC 10
+ SUID 5 SUSER 8 nsMNT 10
+ UID 5 USER 8 nsNET 10
+ TTY 8 nsPID 10
+ nsUSR 10
+ nsUTS 10
.fi
You will be prompted for the amount to be added to the default