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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 9a8265d2..375a131a 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -242,6 +242,26 @@ For sockets, that inode can be used to find more information in one of the files under .IR /proc/net/ . +For file descriptors that have no corresponding inode +(e.g., file descriptors produced by +.BR epoll_create (2), +.BR eventfd (2), +.BR inotify_init (2), +.BR signalfd (2), +and +.BR timerfd (2)), +the entry will be a symbolic link with contents of the form + + anon_inode:<file-type> + +In some cases, the +.I file-type +is surrounded by square brackets. + +For example, an epoll file descriptor will have a symbolic link +whose content is the string +.IR "anon_inode:[eventpoll]" . + .\"The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 In a multithreaded process, the contents of this directory are not available if the main thread has already terminated |