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proc_pid_wchan - wait channel

NAME  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO 

NAME

/proc/pid/wchan − wait channel

DESCRIPTION

/proc/pid/wchan (since Linux 2.6.0)

The symbolic name corresponding to the location in the kernel where the process is sleeping.

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

SEE ALSO

proc(5)


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