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-.\" 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_exe 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.SH NAME
-/proc/pid/exe \- symbolic link to program pathname
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.TP
-.IR /proc/ pid /exe
-Under Linux 2.2 and later, this file is a symbolic link
-containing the actual pathname of the executed command.
-This symbolic link can be dereferenced normally; attempting to open
-it will open the executable.
-You can even type
-.IR /proc/ pid /exe
-to run another copy of the same executable that is being run by
-process
-.IR pid .
-If the pathname has been unlinked, the symbolic link will contain the
-string \[aq]\ (deleted)\[aq] appended to the original pathname.
-.\" 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).
-.IP
-Under Linux 2.0 and earlier,
-.IR /proc/ pid /exe
-is a pointer to the binary which was executed,
-and appears as a symbolic link.
-A
-.BR readlink (2)
-call on this file under Linux 2.0 returns a string in the format:
-.IP
-.in +4n
-.EX
-[device]:inode
-.EE
-.in
-.IP
-For example, [0301]:1502 would be inode 1502 on device major 03 (IDE,
-MFM, etc. drives) minor 01 (first partition on the first drive).
-.IP
-.BR find (1)
-with the
-.I \-inum
-option can be used to locate the file.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR proc (5)