docs/55221: ps(1) man page nit - description of "state" field

[Rich Morin]

>Number:         55221
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ps(1) man page nit - description of "state" field
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 03 15:30:01 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Rich Morin
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Canta Forda Computer Laboratory
>Environment:

        FreeBSD cfcl.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0:
        Sat Nov 16 12:01:18 PST 2002
        rdm at cfcl.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CFCL  i386

>Description:

	The ps(1) manual page says:

	  The state is given by a sequence of letters, for example, "RWNA".
	  The first letter indicates the run state of the process:

	    D       Marks a process in disk (or other short term,
	            uninterruptible) wait.
	    ...

	  Additional characters after these, if any, indicate additional
	  state information:

	    +       The process is in the foreground process group of its
	            control terminal.
	    ...

	This description is faulty.  Given that the "additional characters"
	may not be letters, the initial description should be changed to
	(something like):

	  The state is given by a sequence of characters, for example,
	  "RWNA".  The first character (always a letter) indicates the
	  run state of the process:
	  ...

>How-To-Repeat:

	man ps

>Fix:

	as described above

        Note: This error is also present in the FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and
	      5.1-RELEASE man pages, as shown on the FreeBSD web site.
>Release-Note:
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