credentials.7: Note that /proc/PID/status shows a process's credentials

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7
index 80c374f088075c109d63cce3a747d9d66eb92ea3..f2812f5536a3512d359f28353162a16e9965e772 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/credentials.7
+++ b/man7/credentials.7
@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ The real, effective, and saved set user and groups IDs,
 and the supplementary group IDs, are specified in POSIX.1.
 The filesystem user and group IDs are a Linux extension.
 .SH NOTES
+Various fields in the
+.IR /proc/[pid]/status
+file show the process credentials described above.
+See
+.BR proc (5)
+for further information.
+.PP
 The POSIX threads specification requires that
 credentials are shared by all of the threads in a process.
 However, at the kernel level, Linux maintains separate user and group