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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
| commit | 3af6d22bb3850ab2bac67287e3a3d3b0e32868e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ee7a3ec64525911fa865bb984c86d997d855527 /man5/proc_pid_cwd.5 | |
| parent | Adding debian version 6.05.01-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_cwd.5 b/man5/proc_pid_cwd.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df99f11 --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/proc_pid_cwd.5 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_pid_cwd 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7" +.SH NAME +/proc/pid/cwd \- symbolic link to current working directory +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.IR /proc/ pid /cwd +This is a symbolic link to the current working directory of the process. +To find out the current working directory of process 20, +for instance, you can do this: +.IP +.in +4n +.EX +.RB "$" " cd /proc/20/cwd; pwd \-P" +.EE +.in +.IP +.\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 +In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link +are not available if the main thread has already terminated +(typically by calling +.BR pthread_exit (3)). +.IP +Permission to dereference or read +.RB ( readlink (2)) +this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode +.B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS +check; see +.BR ptrace (2). +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |