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proc_pid_personality - execution domain

NAME  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO 

NAME

/proc/pid/personality − execution domain

DESCRIPTION

/proc/pid/personality (since Linux 2.6.28)

This read-only file exposes the process’s execution domain, as set by personality(2). The value is displayed in hexadecimal notation.

Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

SEE ALSO

proc(5)


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