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diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_task.5 b/man5/proc_pid_task.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 808191775..000000000 --- a/man5/proc_pid_task.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,97 +0,0 @@ -.\" 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_task 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" -.SH NAME -/proc/pid/task/, /proc/tid/, /proc/thread\-self/ \- thread information -.SH DESCRIPTION -.TP -.IR /proc/ pid /task/ " (since Linux 2.6.0)" -.\" Precisely: Linux 2.6.0-test6 -This is a directory that contains one subdirectory -for each thread in the process. -The name of each subdirectory is the numerical thread ID -.RI ( tid ) -of the thread (see -.BR gettid (2)). -.IP -Within each of these subdirectories, there is a set of -files with the same names and contents as under the -.IR /proc/ pid -directories. -For attributes that are shared by all threads, the contents for -each of the files under the -.IR task/ tid -subdirectories will be the same as in the corresponding -file in the parent -.IR /proc/ pid -directory -(e.g., in a multithreaded process, all of the -.IR task/ tid /cwd -files will have the same value as the -.IR /proc/ pid /cwd -file in the parent directory, since all of the threads in a process -share a working directory). -For attributes that are distinct for each thread, -the corresponding files under -.IR task/ tid -may have different values (e.g., various fields in each of the -.IR task/ tid /status -files may be different for each thread), -.\" in particular: "children" :/ -or they might not exist in -.IR /proc/ pid -at all. -.IP -.\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 -In a multithreaded process, the contents of the -.IR /proc/ pid /task -directory are not available if the main thread has already terminated -(typically by calling -.BR pthread_exit (3)). -.TP -.IR /proc/ tid / -There is a numerical subdirectory for each running thread -that is not a thread group leader -(i.e., a thread whose thread ID is not the same as its process ID); -the subdirectory is named by the thread ID. -Each one of these subdirectories contains files and subdirectories -exposing information about the thread with the thread ID -.IR tid . -The contents of these directories are the same as the corresponding -.IR /proc/ pid /task/ tid -directories. -.IP -The -.IR /proc/ tid -subdirectories are -.I not -visible when iterating through -.I /proc -with -.BR getdents (2) -(and thus are -.I not -visible when one uses -.BR ls (1) -to view the contents of -.IR /proc ). -However, the pathnames of these directories are visible to -(i.e., usable as arguments in) -system calls that operate on pathnames. -.TP -.IR /proc/thread\-self/ " (since Linux 3.17)" -.\" commit 0097875bd41528922fb3bb5f348c53f17e00e2fd -This directory refers to the thread accessing the -.I /proc -filesystem, -and is identical to the -.IR /proc/self/task/ tid -directory named by the process thread ID -.RI ( tid ) -of the same thread. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR proc (5) |