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NAME¶
/proc/pid/cwd - symbolic link to current working directory
DESCRIPTION¶
- /proc/pid/cwd
- This is a symbolic link to the current working directory of the process. To find out the current working directory of process 20, for instance, you can do this:
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$ cd /proc/20/cwd; pwd -P
- In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link are not available if the main thread has already terminated (typically by calling pthread_exit(3)).
- Permission to dereference or read (readlink(2)) this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).
SEE ALSO¶
2023-08-15 | Linux man-pages 6.7 |