Re: newbie question on /proc directory

[Sreeji K Das <bksys@xxxxxxxx>]

Hai,

proc is a pseudo filesystem, which provides interface to various kernel
data structures. It provides various usefull info, such as the pid's of
all running processess are listed as directories. So if you cd to /proc/1, 
it gives details of the 'init' process, (such as a link to the executable
file, environment variables, ..etc.)

/proc also gives some vital info on the hardware.

/proc/pci     - Listing of PCI devices  (ie. do a 'cat /proc/pci')
/proc/cpuinfo - Details of your Processor
.
Browse the /proc directory & you'll find more interesting information.

For details see 'man proc'

Sreeji

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, kamesh jayachandran wrote:

I have seen a directory /proc on my system and it had lot of subdirectories 
with names as somenumbers under it.What does that numbers signify?
Thanks in advance
kamesh jayachandran

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kamesh jayachandran
Software Engineer
MicroLand limited
Bangalore
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