Gawk/Obsolete
From Get docs
Next: Undocumented, Previous: Loading Shared Libraries, Up: Invoking Gawk [Contents][Index]
2.9 Obsolete Options and/or Features
This section describes features and/or command-line options from
previous releases of gawk
that either are not available in the
current version or are still supported but deprecated (meaning that
they will not be in the next release).
The process-related special files /dev/pid
, /dev/ppid
,
/dev/pgrpid
, and /dev/user
were deprecated in gawk
3.1, but still worked. As of version 4.0, they are no longer
interpreted specially by gawk
. (Use PROCINFO
instead;
see Built-in Variables That Convey Information.)