Subject: [bug#62348] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: psmisc: Make description more informative.

From: Bruno Victal <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:11:20 +0000

From: mikadoZero <[email-masked]>

The text for the description is taken from the psmisc readme.

* gnu/packages/linux.scm (psmisc)[description]: Make description more informative.

Co-authored-by: Bruno Victal <[email-masked]>
---
 gnu/packages/linux.scm | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index ef05e77ec8..14e6f46a39 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Pierre Langlois <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Vasile Dumitrascu <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Tim Gesthuizen <[email-masked]>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 mikadoZero <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Stefan Stefanović <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019-2022 Brice Waegeneire <[email-masked]>
@@ -2039,9 +2040,15 @@ (define-public psmisc
     (home-page "https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc")
     (synopsis "Small utilities that use the proc file system")
     (description
-     "This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that
-use the proc file system.  We're not about changing the world, but
-providing the system administrator with some help in common tasks.")
+     "A package of small utilities that use the proc file-system.
+@itemize @bullet
+@item @command{fuser} - Identifies processes using files or sockets
+@item @command{killall} - kills processes by name, e.g. @samp{killall -HUP @var{name}}
+@item @command{prtstat} - prints statistics of a process
+@item @command{pslog} - prints log path(s) of a process
+@item @command{pstree} - shows the currently running processes as a tree
+@item @command{peekfd} - shows the data travelling over a file descriptor
+@end itemize")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
 (define-public util-linux
-- 
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