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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-08 20:29:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-08 20:31:56 +0100 |
| commit | d7e537ce942ee79ee336470b495bdff0da097e15 (patch) | |
| tree | 03918f2243b00ca2f0611daccca99d3852b81e26 | |
| parent | 9599cbb35c3629256f2a0334dc5a376fbbabac4b (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-d7e537ce942ee79ee336470b495bdff0da097e15.tar.gz | |
proc.5: /proc/PID/fdinfo displays the setting of the close-on-exec flag
Note also the pre-3.1 bug in the display of this info.
Reported-by: Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 71df3fd125..204384184d 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -642,6 +642,17 @@ This is a decimal number showing the file offset. This is an octal number that displays the file access mode and file status flags (see .BR open (2)). +If the close-on-exec file descriptor flag is set, then +.I flags +will also include the value +.BR O_CLOEXEC . + +Before Linux 3.1, +.\" commit 1117f72ea0217ba0cc19f05adbbd8b9a397f5ab7 +this field incorrectly displayed the setting of +.B O_CLOEXEC +at the time the file was opened, +rather than the current setting of the close-on-exec flag. .TP .I .I mnt_id |