[PATCH] core.5: document the %f and %C core_pattern specifiers
From: Emanuele Rocca <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-13 19:16:03
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Whilst going through the relevant kernel code in fs/coredump.c, I noticed that two core pattern specifiers supported by Linux are missing from man5/core.5. Document them now. Signed-off-by: Emanuele Rocca <redacted> --- man/man5/core.5 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man5/core.5 b/man/man5/core.5
index 8c26aa07e..4da5819b6 100644
--- a/man/man5/core.5
+++ b/man/man5/core.5@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ A single % character. %c Core file size soft resource limit of crashing process (since Linux 2.6.24). .TP +%C +CPU the task ran on +.\" commit 8603b6f58637ce196d68f7749633ea81af196d66 +(since Linux 6.2). +.TP %d .\" Added in git commit 12a2b4b2241e318b4f6df31228e4272d2c2968a1 Dump mode\[em]same as value returned by
@@ -179,6 +184,11 @@ Pathname of executable, with slashes (\[aq]/\[aq]) replaced by exclamation marks (\[aq]!\[aq]) (since Linux 3.0). .TP +%f +Actual filename of executable, which may differ from %e +.\" commit f38c85f1ba6902e4e2e2bf1b84edf065a904cdeb +(since Linux 5.9). +.TP %F PIDFD of dumped process .\" commit b5325b2a270fcaf7b2a9a0f23d422ca8a5a8bdea
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