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UNIX » UnixFileDirectoryOrganization
/proc
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- files that provide status and statistics on system, kernel, and processes
- it is a pseudo-filesystem which is used as an interface to kernel data structures
- each running process has a directory in
/proc that corresponds to it's PID from which you can extract info about the process - see man proc for more info
see also UnixFileDirectoryOrganization
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