proc_pid_wchan(5)

proc_pid_wchan5

Wait channel

Overview

/proc/pid/wchan (since Linux 2.6.0)

The symbolic name corresponding to the location in the kernel where the process is sleeping.

Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_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.