Remove the dependency on procfs.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	1 week
X-MFC with:	r257430
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Sergey Kandaurov 2013-11-01 10:42:32 +00:00
parent 915f2b7c89
commit deb7ab1d6b
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=257502

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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 23, 2012
.Dd October 31, 2013
.Dt LIMITS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ Like the previous usage, it outputs these values to standard
output, except that it will emit them in
.Ic eval
format, suitable for the calling shell.
The calling shell is determined by examining the entries in the
.Pa /proc
file system for the parent process.
If the shell is known (i.e., it is one of
.Nm sh , csh , bash , tcsh , ksh , pdksh
or
@ -386,21 +383,6 @@ utility does not handle commands with equal
signs in their
names, for obvious reasons.
.Pp
When eval output is selected, the
.Pa /proc
file system must be installed
and mounted for the shell to be correctly determined, and therefore
output syntax correct for the running shell.
The default output is valid for
.Xr sh 1 ,
so this means that any
usage of
.Nm
in eval mode prior mounting
.Pa /proc
may only occur in standard bourne
shell scripts.
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility makes no effort to ensure that resource settings emitted or displayed