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Timothy Parez wrote: | Perhaps I should have mentioned that I haven't been working with Linux | for a very long time :) | Although I do know the /proc filesystem is something special :) | | Timothy. | Op wo 06-08-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ivan Hawkes:
Indeed it is. To find out how special try cattting some of the files in there, e.g.
cat /proc/ksyms (kernel symbols) cat /proc/modules (loaded modules) cat /proc/uptime (your uptime)
and so forth. It's a special filesystem that is used to provide infomation from various drivers/etc back to userland. Because it is a filesystem you can access this kind of data from anywhere in Linux e.g. shell scripts, from Perl, etc. You can register your own data and entries for /proc too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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