From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
Emanuele Rocca <emanuele.rocca@arm.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core.5: document the %f and %C core_pattern specifiers
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:29:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4718783.LvFx2qVVIh@natalenko.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abRiap_UrhFzNxPs@NH27D9T0LF>
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On pátek 13. března 2026 20:15:54, středoevropský standardní čas Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> Whilst going through the relevant kernel code in fs/coredump.c, I noticed that
> two core pattern specifiers supported by Linux are missing from man5/core.5.
> Document them now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Rocca <emanuele.rocca@arm.com>
> ---
> man/man5/core.5 | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man/man5/core.5 b/man/man5/core.5
> index 8c26aa07e..4da5819b6 100644
> --- a/man/man5/core.5
> +++ b/man/man5/core.5
> @@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ A single % character.
> %c
> Core file size soft resource limit of crashing process (since Linux 2.6.24).
> .TP
> +%C
> +CPU the task ran on
> +.\" commit 8603b6f58637ce196d68f7749633ea81af196d66
> +(since Linux 6.2).
> +.TP
For this part:
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Thank you.
> %d
> .\" Added in git commit 12a2b4b2241e318b4f6df31228e4272d2c2968a1
> Dump mode\[em]same as value returned by
> @@ -179,6 +184,11 @@ Pathname of executable,
> with slashes (\[aq]/\[aq]) replaced by exclamation marks (\[aq]!\[aq])
> (since Linux 3.0).
> .TP
> +%f
> +Actual filename of executable, which may differ from %e
> +.\" commit f38c85f1ba6902e4e2e2bf1b84edf065a904cdeb
> +(since Linux 5.9).
> +.TP
> %F
> PIDFD of dumped process
> .\" commit b5325b2a270fcaf7b2a9a0f23d422ca8a5a8bdea
>
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Oleksandr Natalenko, MSE
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 19:15 [PATCH] core.5: document the %f and %C core_pattern specifiers Emanuele Rocca
2026-03-13 20:29 ` Oleksandr Natalenko [this message]
2026-03-13 20:51 ` lepton
2026-03-16 0:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
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