From 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 06:52:22 +0200 Subject: Merging upstream version 6.8. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 (limited to 'man/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5') diff --git a/man/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 b/man/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9388e10 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_pid_cmdline.5 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_pid_cmdline 5 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.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) -- cgit v1.2.3