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