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authorGuillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>2023-04-17 01:35:49 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-04-17 20:17:40 +0200
commit92b8493d81697e1505075c6843d1d06781b6cb27 (patch)
tree4b7594427c017035ff5122798564d8e9c5945267
parent6263befb32fdc99dd5d02b6afdd5613db9df4c3b (diff)
proc.5: Document exact /proc/PID/exe behavior on unlinked pathnames
Add the space which gets appended before the "(deleted)" marker. Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.52
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index dc5397a22..e037f2af8 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ to run another copy of the same executable that is being run by
process
.IR pid .
If the pathname has been unlinked, the symbolic link will contain the
-string \[aq](deleted)\[aq] appended to the original pathname.
+string \[aq]\ (deleted)\[aq] appended to the original pathname.
.\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13
In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link
are not available if the main thread has already terminated