From 6c7331a4143accb67ab107f4092afe2132938254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:05:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] pidfd_open.2: Minor wording improvement Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/pidfd_open.2 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/pidfd_open.2 b/man2/pidfd_open.2 index 6c80aec2f..fb025ad49 100644 --- a/man2/pidfd_open.2 +++ b/man2/pidfd_open.2 @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ on the file descriptor fails with the error .PP The .BR pidfd_open () -system call is the preferred way of obtaining a PID file descriptor. +system call is the preferred way of obtaining a PID file descriptor +for an already existing process. The alternative is to obtain a file descriptor by opening a .I /proc/[pid] directory.