Documentation: update the description of TracerPid in procfs.rst
authorChen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2022 08:15:17 +0000 (16:15 +0800)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:08:21 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
When the tracer of process is outside of current pid namespace, field
`TracerPid` in /proc/<pid>/status will be 0, too, just like this process
not have been traced.

This is because that function `task_pid_nr_ns` used to get the pid of
tracer will return 0 in this situation.

Co-authored-by: Yuan Haisheng <heysion@deepin.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102081517.19770-1-chenlinxuan@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst

index 898c99eae8e44630b459a2adca8b84ebb1423d8f..e98e0277f05e5cf4503f1993ffb73070838d4d5d 100644 (file)
@@ -245,7 +245,8 @@ It's slow but very precise.
  Ngid                        NUMA group ID (0 if none)
  Pid                         process id
  PPid                        process id of the parent process
- TracerPid                   PID of process tracing this process (0 if not)
+ TracerPid                   PID of process tracing this process (0 if not, or
+                             the tracer is outside of the current pid namespace)
  Uid                         Real, effective, saved set, and  file system UIDs
  Gid                         Real, effective, saved set, and  file system GIDs
  FDSize                      number of file descriptor slots currently allocated