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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man/man5/proc.5
index ce072ee..bbdf162 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man/man5/proc.5
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
.\"
-.TH proc 5 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
+.TH proc 5 2024-05-19 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
proc \- process information, system information, and sysctl pseudo-filesystem
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ information about running processes (e.g., discovering whether
some daemon is running with elevated privileges,
whether another user is running some sensitive program,
whether other users are running any program at all, and so on).
-.RE
.TP
.BR gid "=\fIgid\fP (since Linux 3.3)"
.\" commit 0499680a42141d86417a8fbaa8c8db806bea1201
@@ -105,7 +104,13 @@ This group should be used instead of approaches such as putting
nonroot users into the
.BR sudoers (5)
file.
-.\"
+.RE
+.TP
+.BR subset = pid " (since Linux 5.8)"
+.\" commit 6814ef2d992af09451bbeda4770daa204461329e
+Show only the specified subset of procfs,
+hiding all top level files and directories in the procfs
+that are not related to tasks.
.SS Overview
Underneath
.IR /proc ,
@@ -176,7 +181,9 @@ Various other files and subdirectories under
.I /proc
expose system-wide information.
.P
-All of the above are described in more detail below.
+All of the above are described in more detail in separate manpages
+whose names start with
+.BR proc_ .
.\"
.\" .SH FILES
.\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/sessionid