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diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 b/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 deleted file mode 100644 index d9e5967..0000000 --- a/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -.\" 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_cmdline 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -/proc/pid/cmdline \- command line -.SH DESCRIPTION -.TP -.IR /proc/ pid /cmdline -This read-only file holds the complete command line for the process, -unless the process is a zombie. -.\" In Linux 2.3.26, this also used to be true if the process was swapped out. -In the latter case, there is nothing in this file: -that is, a read on this file will return 0 characters. -.IP -For processes which are still running, -the command-line arguments appear in this file -in the same layout as they do in process memory: -If the process is well-behaved, -it is a set of strings separated by null bytes (\[aq]\e0\[aq]), -with a further null byte after the last string. -.IP -This is the common case, -but processes have the freedom to -override the memory region and -break assumptions about the contents or format of the -.IR /proc/ pid /cmdline -file. -.IP -If, after an -.BR execve (2), -the process modifies its -.I argv -strings, those changes will show up here. -This is not the same thing as modifying the -.I argv -array. -.IP -Furthermore, a process may change the memory location that this file refers via -.BR prctl (2) -operations such as -.BR PR_SET_MM_ARG_START . -.IP -Think of this file as the command line that the process wants you to see. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR proc (5) |