Re: have a question about /proc
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:35, Michael Spang wrote:
> 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/...
This reminds me. I cannot view /proc in Nautilus - even as root. Is
there a way to do it?
Chris.
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Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>
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