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Re: have a question about /proc



Hi

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:09:44AM -0500, XxterminialxX@aol.com wrote:
> I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and  
> noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what is  
> this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file system 
>  what ever that is I dont know, secondly why does it duplicate my root 
> directory  and then create nested copies of it. they seem to go on endlessly what 
> perpose  does that serve just curiouse. Mabey its just my computer but I have 
> tried  differant linux distrobutions and the all seem to do the same thing. Oh 
> and for  the record I can not delete them any  at all very  
> strange.........?????

Maybe you coul'd find interessting reading the following links:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tutorial.en.html#s-procfs
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-filesystem/proc.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-proc.html

Greetings Salvatore
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Linux arda 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Tue Nov 16 17:52:21 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux



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