1.\" 2.\" This file and its contents are supplied under the terms of the 3.\" Common Development and Distribution License ("CDDL"), version 1.0. 4.\" You may only use this file in accordance with the terms of version 5.\" 1.0 of the CDDL. 6.\" 7.\" A full copy of the text of the CDDL should have accompanied this 8.\" source. A copy of the CDDL is also available via the Internet at 9.\" http://www.illumos.org/license/CDDL. 10.\" 11.\" 12.\" Copyright 2015 Joyent, Inc. 13.\" 14.Dd May 11, 2016 15.Dt LCTLFD 3PROC 16.Os 17.Sh NAME 18.Nm Lctlfd 19.Nd obtain the thread control file descriptor 20.Sh SYNOPSIS 21.Lb libproc 22.In libproc.h 23.Ft int 24.Fo Lctlfd 25.Fa "struct ps_lwphandle *L" 26.Fc 27.Sh DESCRIPTION 28The 29.Fn Lctlfd 30function returns a file descriptor to the underlying /proc file system 31.Sy ctl 32file for the thread identified by the handle 33.Fa L . 34This may be used for injecting control operations manually; however, 35many interfaces for using it are provided by 36.Xr libproc 3LIB 37itself. 38.Pp 39The file descriptor is invalidated when the thread handle is released 40through 41.Xr Lfree 3PROC . 42The caller 43.Em must not 44call 45.Xr close 2 46on the returned file descriptor. 47.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY 48.Sy Uncommitted 49.Sh MT-LEVEL 50See 51.Sy LOCKING 52in 53.Xr libproc 3LIB . 54.Sh SEE ALSO 55.Xr libproc 3LIB , 56.Xr Lfree 3PROC , 57.Xr Lgrab 3PROC , 58.Xr proc 4 59