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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, |