proc_pid_cwd(5) File Formats Manual proc_pid_cwd(5)
NAME
/proc/pid/cwd - symbolic link to current working directory
DESCRIPTION
/proc/pid/cwd
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
In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link
are not available if the main thread has already terminated (typ-
ically 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)
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 proc_pid_cwd(5)
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