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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_tid_children.5 b/man/man5/proc_tid_children.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5c5466e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_tid_children.5 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.\" 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_tid_children 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/tid/children \- child tasks +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.IR /proc/ tid /children " (since Linux 3.5)" +.\" commit 818411616baf46ceba0cff6f05af3a9b294734f7 +A space-separated list of child tasks of this task. +Each child task is represented by its TID. +.IP +.\" see comments in get_children_pid() in fs/proc/array.c +This option is intended for use by the checkpoint-restore (CRIU) system, +and reliably provides a list of children only if all of the child processes +are stopped or frozen. +It does not work properly if children of the target task exit while +the file is being read! +Exiting children may cause non-exiting children to be omitted from the list. +This makes this interface even more unreliable than classic PID-based +approaches if the inspected task and its children aren't frozen, +and most code should probably not use this interface. +.IP +Until Linux 4.2, the presence of this file was governed by the +.B CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE +kernel configuration option. +Since Linux 4.2, +.\" commit 2e13ba54a2682eea24918b87ad3edf70c2cf085b +it is governed by the +.B CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN +option. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |