Re: have a question about /proc
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.........?????
You can't delete anything in /proc because theres nothing to delete..
the information is retrieved from memory and formatted when requested by
the kernel. If you examine it closely, you will see that only a few
files actually report a size. 'proc' stands for 'process,' not
procedure. This filesystem is important, as many commands need the
information in provides. The proc(5) manpage explains what many of the
files are. There are lots of symlinks and yes, you can follow them to
get ridiculously long paths for any of the files on your system like
/proc/self/root/proc/self/root/...
Michael Spang
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