From bca7fbb53ad341f1a2d7c105ee8b308ff1b62993 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:08:57 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] proc.5: Since Linux 4.5, "stack:" is no longer shown in /proc/PID/maps Reported-by: Nick Gregory Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/proc.5 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 6bb82a69b..5d626d5a9 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -1324,14 +1324,17 @@ There are additional helpful pseudo-paths: .IR [stack] The initial process's (also known as the main thread's) stack. .TP -.IR [stack:] " (since Linux 3.4)" -.\" commit b76437579d1344b612cf1851ae610c636cec7db0 +.IR [stack:] " (from Linux 3.4 to 4.4)" +.\" commit b76437579d1344b612cf1851ae610c636cec7db0 (added) +.\" commit 65376df582174ffcec9e6471bf5b0dd79ba05e4a (removed) A thread's stack (where the .IR is a thread ID). It corresponds to the .IR /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/ path. +This field was removed in Linux 4.5, since providing this information +for a process with large numbers of threads is expensive. .TP .IR [vdso] The virtual dynamically linked shared object.