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proc.5: Tweaks to Mike Frysinger's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2013-06-27 01:34:57 +02:00
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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
.\" to see what information could be imported from that file
.\" into this file.
.\"
.TH PROC 5 2013-04-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH PROC 5 2013-06-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
proc \- process information pseudo-file system
.SH DESCRIPTION
@ -226,15 +226,20 @@ process has open, named by its file descriptor, and which is a
symbolic link to the actual file.
Thus, 0 is standard input, 1 standard output, 2 standard error, etc.
For fds open to non-files, they will be symlinks to the type with the inode.
For file descriptors for pipes and sockets,
the entries will be symbolic links whose content is the
file type with the inode.
A
.BR readlink (2)
call on this file returns a string in the format:
.br
type:[inode]
.br
For example, socket:[2248868] will be a socket and its inode is 2248868.
For sockets, that inode can be used to find more info in one of the files under
For example,
.I socket:[2248868]
will be a socket and its inode is 2248868.
For sockets, that inode can be used to find more information
in one of the files under
.IR /proc/net/ .
.\"The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13