proc_pid_personality(5)

proc_pid_personality5

Execution domain

Overview

/proc/pid/personality (since Linux 2.6.28)

This read-only file exposes the process's execution domain, as set by personality(2). The value is displayed in hexadecimal notation.

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

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.