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+ Post Mid-Term Road Map
+----
+
+Legend
+
+* - Has already been implemented.
+** - I already know the where the information is exactly available.
+*** - I know where the information is available roughly, but need to look in detail to extract the exact information.
+**** - The information may be available, but needs to be searched to know where it will be.
+***** - I fear information may not be available.
+~~~~~ - Need not be implemented.
+File
+/proc/<PID>/stat
+
+* pid
+
+* comm
+
+* state
+
+* ppid
+
+* pgrp
+
+* session
+
+* tty_nr
+
+* tpgid
+
+** minflt
+The number of minor faults the process has made which have not required loading a memory page
+from disk.
+
+*** cminflt
+The number of minor faults that the process’s waited-for children have made.
+
+** majflt
+The number of major faults the process has made which have required loading a memory page from
+disk.
+
+*** cmajflt
+The number of major faults that the process’s waited-for children have made.
+
+** utime
+The number of jiffies that this process has been scheduled in user mode.
+
+** stime
+The number of jiffies that this process has been scheduled in kernel mode.
+
+** cutime
+The number of jiffies that this process’s waited-for children have been scheduled in user
+mode.
+
+** cstime
+The number of jiffies that this process’s waited-for children have been scheduled in kernel mode.
+
+** priority
+The standard nice value, plus fifteen. The value is never negative in the kernel.
+
+*** nice
+The nice value ranges from 19 to -19.
+
+** num_threads
+Number of threads in this process.
+
+*** starttime
+The time in jiffies the process started after system boot.
+
+**** vsize
+Virtual memory size in bytes.
+
+** rss
+Resident Set Size: number of pages the process has in real memory, minus 3 for administrative
+purposes. This is just the pages which count towards text, data, or stack space. This does not
+include pages which have not been demand-loaded in, or which are swapped out.
+
+*** signal
+The bitmap of pending signals.
+
+*** blocked
+The bitmap of blocked signals.
+
+*** sigignore
+The bitmap of ignored signals.
+
+*** sigcatch
+The bitmap of caught signals.
+
+** policy
+Scheduling policy (see sched_setscheduler(2)).
+File
+/proc/<PID>/statm
+
+** resident
+resident set size
+
+*** size
+total program size
+
+*** text
+text (code)
+Other Per-PID Files
+
+** /proc/<PID>/cwd
+
+** /proc/<PID>/exe
+
+** /proc/<PID>/environ
+Non Per-PID Files
+
+** /proc/version
+File
+/proc/<PID>/stat
+
+**** rlim
+Current limit in bytes on the rss of the process (usually 4294967295 on i386).
+
+**** startcode
+The address above which program text can run.
+
+**** endcode
+The address below which program text can run.
+
+**** startstack
+The address of the start of the stack.
+
+**** kstkesp
+The current value of esp (stack pointer), as found in the kernel stack page for the process.
+
+**** kstkeip
+The current EIP (instruction pointer).
+
+**** exit_signal
+Signal to be sent to parent when we die.
+File
+/proc/<PID>/statm
+
+**** share
+shared pages
+
+**** data
+data/stack
+Other Per-PID File
+
+**** /proc/<PID>/root
+Non Per-PID Files
+
+**** /proc/stat
+
+**** /proc/meminfo
+File
+/proc/<PID>/stat
+
+***** wchan
+This is the "channel" in which the process is waiting. It is the address of a system call, and
+can be looked up in a namelist if you need a textual name. (If you have an up-to-date
+/etc/psdatabase,
+
+***** processor
+CPU number last executed on.
+
+***** rt_priority
+Real-time scheduling priority
+
+***** delayacct_blkio_ticks
+Aggregated block I/O delays, measured in clock ticks (centiseconds).
+
+***** flags
+PF_* fields defined in
+
+~~~~~ itrealvalue
+The time in jiffies before the next SIGALRM is sent to the process due to an interval timer.
+
+~~~~~ nswap
+Number of pages swapped (not maintained).
+
+~~~~~ cnswap
+Cumulative nswap for child processes (not maintained).
+File
+/proc/<PID>/statm
+
+~~~~~ lib
+library (not required)
+
+~~~~~ dt
+dirty pages (not required)
+
+
+------
+
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