NAME¶
/proc/pid/cmdline - command line
DESCRIPTION¶
- /proc/pid/cmdline
- This read-only file holds the complete command line for the process,
unless the process is a zombie. In the latter case, there is nothing in
this file: that is, a read on this file will return 0 characters.
- For processes which are still running, the command-line arguments appear
in this file in the same layout as they do in process memory: If the
process is well-behaved, it is a set of strings separated by null bytes
('\0'), with a further null byte after the last string.
- This is the common case, but processes have the freedom to override the
memory region and break assumptions about the contents or format of the
/proc/pid/cmdline file.
- If, after an execve(2), the process modifies its argv
strings, those changes will show up here. This is not the same thing as
modifying the argv array.
- Furthermore, a process may change the memory location that this file
refers via prctl(2) operations such as
PR_SET_MM_ARG_START.
- Think of this file as the command line that the process wants you to
see.