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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_pid_timerslack_ns.5 b/man/man5/proc_pid_timerslack_ns.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..73673faca --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_pid_timerslack_ns.5 @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_pid_timerslack_ns 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/pid/timerslack_ns \- timer slack in nanoseconds +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.IR /proc/ pid /timerslack_ns " (since Linux 4.6)" +.\" commit da8b44d5a9f8bf26da637b7336508ca534d6b319 +.\" commit 5de23d435e88996b1efe0e2cebe242074ce67c9e +This file exposes the process's "current" timer slack value, +expressed in nanoseconds. +The file is writable, +allowing the process's timer slack value to be changed. +Writing 0 to this file resets the "current" timer slack to the +"default" timer slack value. +For further details, see the discussion of +.B PR_SET_TIMERSLACK +in +.BR prctl (2). +.IP +Initially, +permission to access this file was governed by a ptrace access mode +.B PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS +check (see +.BR ptrace (2)). +However, this was subsequently deemed too strict a requirement +(and had the side effect that requiring a process to have the +.B CAP_SYS_PTRACE +capability would also allow it to view and change any process's memory). +Therefore, since Linux 4.9, +.\" commit 7abbaf94049914f074306d960b0f968ffe52e59f +only the (weaker) +.B CAP_SYS_NICE +capability is required to access this file. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |