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proc_pid_cwd
Section: File Formats (5) Updated: 202-0-08 Index
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NAME
/proc/pid/cwd - symbolic link to current working directory
DESCRIPTION
- /proc/pid/cwd
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This is a symbolic link to the current working directory of the process.
To find out the current working directory of process 20,
for instance, you can do this:
-
$ cd /proc/20/cwd; pwd -P
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In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link
are not available if the main thread has already terminated
(typically by calling
pthread_exit(3)).
-
Permission to dereference or read
(readlink(2))
this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode
PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS
check;
see
ptrace(2).
SEE ALSO
proc(5)
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