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fs, proc: add help for CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
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The purpose of the option was documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt but the help text was missing.

Add small help text that also points to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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iaguis authored and torvalds committed Jul 17, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -75,3 +75,9 @@ config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
config PROC_CHILDREN
bool "Include /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file"
default n
help
Provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids of a task. See
<file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> for more information.

Say Y if you are running any user-space software which takes benefit from
this interface. For example, rkt is such a piece of software.

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