Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <redacted>
---
 man5/proc_pid_io.5 | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_io.5 b/man5/proc_pid_io.5
index 124252319..81cfdd249 100644
--- a/man5/proc_pid_io.5
+++ b/man5/proc_pid_io.5

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
 .TP
 .IR /proc/ pid /io " (since Linux 2.6.20)"
 .\" commit 7c3ab7381e79dfc7db14a67c6f4f3285664e1ec2
-This file contains I/O statistics for the process, for example:
+This file contains I/O statistics for the process and its waited-for children, for example:

 .IP
 .in +4n
 .EX

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
 .RS
 .TP
 .IR rchar ": characters read"
-The number of bytes which this task has caused to be read from storage.
+The number of bytes which this task and its waited-for children have caused to be read from storage.
 This is simply the sum of bytes which this process passed to
 .BR read (2)
 and similar system calls.

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
 pagecache).
 .TP
 .IR wchar ": characters written"
-The number of bytes which this task has caused, or shall cause to be written
+The number of bytes which this task and its waited-for children has caused, or shall cause to be written
 to disk.
 Similar caveats apply here as with
 .IR rchar .

@@ -60,12 +60,12 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR pwrite (2).
 .TP
 .IR read_bytes ": bytes read"
-Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process really did cause to
+Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process and its waited-for children really did cause to
 be fetched from the storage layer.
 This is accurate for block-backed filesystems.
 .TP
 .IR write_bytes ": bytes written"
-Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process caused to be sent to
+Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process and its waited-for children caused to be sent to
 the storage layer.
 .TP
 .IR cancelled_write_bytes :

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
 If a process writes 1 MB to a file and then deletes the file,
 it will in fact perform no writeout.
 But it will have been accounted as having caused 1 MB of write.
-In other words: this field represents the number of bytes which this process
+In other words: this field represents the number of bytes which this process and its waited-for children
 caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache.
 A task can cause "negative" I/O too.
 If this task truncates some dirty pagecache,

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