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-rw-r--r--man7/pid_namespaces.72
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diff --git a/man7/pid_namespaces.7 b/man7/pid_namespaces.7
index 5ef19a9265..294bad56b0 100644
--- a/man7/pid_namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/pid_namespaces.7
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ on the path
.I /proc/self
yields the process ID of the caller in the PID namespace of the procfs mount
(i.e., the PID namespace of the process that mounted the procfs).
+This can be useful for introspection purposes,
+when a process wants to discover its PID in other namespaces.
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