[PATCH] proc.5: Document /proc/PID/exe behaviour on unlinked pathnames
From: Guillem Jover <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-01 06:40:56
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <redacted> --- man5/proc.5 | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 5aca38a..8aa8798 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ .\" to see what information could be imported from that file .\" into this file. .\" -.TH PROC 5 2011-10-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH PROC 5 2011-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME proc \- process information pseudo-file system .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ You can even type .I /proc/[pid]/exe to run another copy of the same executable as is being run by process [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
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