Hello Patrick On 03/07/2016 08:51 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > The man page says this > > "The flags field is an octal number that displays the file access mode > and file status flags (see open(2))." > > flags may also include the file descriptor flags (F_GETFD). (Although > there is only the O_CLOEXEC flag and that is explicitly included [1]) > > [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/proc/fd.c#L41-L43 Thanks. I added this detail. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html