proc_pid_environ(5) — Linux manual page

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proc_pid_environ(5)        File Formats Manual       proc_pid_environ(5)

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       /proc/pid/environ - initial environment

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       /proc/pid/environ
              This file contains the initial environment that was set
              when the currently executing program was started via
              execve(2).  The entries are separated by null bytes
              ('\0'), and there may be a null byte at the end.  Thus, to
              print out the environment of process 1, you would do:

                  $ cat /proc/1/environ | tr '\000' '\n'

              If, after an execve(2), the process modifies its
              environment (e.g., by calling functions such as putenv(3)
              or modifying the environ(7) variable directly), this file
              will not reflect those changes.

              Furthermore, a process may change the memory location that
              this file refers via prctl(2) operations such as
              PR_SET_MM_ENV_START.

              Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace
              access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

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       proc(5)

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