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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-06-09 12:08:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-06-09 12:08:39 +0200 |
| commit | 8d85a961ac6f97a51175b862830cd7571ac825bc (patch) | |
| tree | 53c6baec0ab04f59ae3c4300bbe5b3bbf87ff865 /man5 | |
| parent | 492a8b724fbb4f6197518de90e50314da254c772 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-8d85a961ac6f97a51175b862830cd7571ac825bc.tar.gz | |
core.5: Explain that core_pattern %e is process/thread 'comm' value
The 'comm' value is typically the same as the (possibly
truncated) executable name, but may be something different.
Reported-by: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 0d7b7b6178..995ac3a62b 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -174,7 +174,17 @@ dump mode\(emsame as value returned by (since Linux 3.7) .TP %e -executable filename (without path prefix) +The process or thread's +.I comm +value, which typically is the same as the executable filename +(without path prefix, and truncated to a maximum of 15 characters), +but may have been modified to be something different; +see the discussion of +.I /proc/[pid]/comm +and +.I /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/comm +in +.BR proc (5). .TP %E pathname of executable, |