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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-30 11:23:26 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-30 11:30:03 +1300 |
| commit | 9d8b225095506a4499c81aec94d8fa876e6ab85f (patch) | |
| tree | d5d41ba027d56f92995a27be0c88538217b3fe3f /man5 | |
| parent | 1c3aae54d23aaf6e5dcbe1790456c0c86ce46214 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-9d8b225095506a4499c81aec94d8fa876e6ab85f.tar.gz | |
core.5: Clarify that dumping program's initial CWD is root directory
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 8 |
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diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 6d3cb8f507..b191c1a2da 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -274,6 +274,14 @@ to find the right .I /proc/[pid] directory and probe/enter the crashing process's namespaces if needed. .IP * +The process starts with its current working directory +as the root directory. +If desired, it is possible change to the working directory of +the dumping process by employing the value provided by the +.I %P +specifier to change to the location of the dumping process via +.IR /proc/[pid]/cwd . +.IP * Command-line arguments can be supplied to the program (since Linux 2.6.24), delimited by white space (up to a total line length of 128 bytes). |