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/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


r1 - 12 Dec 2008 - 00:11:45 - RobertSajan
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