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Name

/proc/pid/cwd - symbolic link to current working directory

Description

/proc/ pid /cwd This is a symbolic link to the current working directory of the process. To find out the current working directory of process 20, for instance, you can do this: 

"$" " cd /proc/20/cwd; pwd -P"

In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link are not available if the main thread has already terminated (typically by calling pthread_exit(3)).

Permission to dereference or read ( readlink (2)) this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

See Also

  1. proc(5)