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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-02-20 08:41:10 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-02-20 22:01:15 +0100
commitc187d2a16ca7e89d62f2718f7b69799bdf7f41fb (patch)
tree6f7c88d21f299b5cd86ee9c5da6e28302a520507 /man5
parent09651080d1df3c5fff579ff1f85327a3c52e8cf6 (diff)
downloadman-pages-c187d2a16ca7e89d62f2718f7b69799bdf7f41fb.tar.gz
proc.5: Tweaks to Mike's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.56
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 7f8031adbe..f087ff250f 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ Thus, to print out the environment of process 1, you would do:
If, after an
.BR execve (2),
the process modifies its environment
-(e.g. by calling functions such as
+(e.g., by calling functions such as
.BR putenv (3)
or modifying the
.BR environ (7)
@@ -502,9 +502,9 @@ this file will
.I not
reflect those changes.
-Further, a process may change the memory this points to by calling
+Furthermore, a process may change the memory location that this file refers via
.BR prctl (2)
-and using operations such as
+operations such as
.BR PR_SET_MM_ENV_START .
Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode