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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

  1. proc(5)