<quote who="truk"> > On 11/12/01 8:32 AM, "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know about the name, but I would guess that /proc is short for > process, as it is a method used to track system resource utilization by each > process.
Under Solaris (and possibly other unixes), /proc provides information about running processes. It contains a virtual directory for each process which is currently running, where you can investigate usage of system resources etc. Under linux, /proc has had far more information placed in it, and allows control of the kernel internal structures. There was one mention of changing the name from /proc to something like /kernel, since the name no longer quite fits, but doing so would require changes to many user-space programs which rely on the name. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: "No TV and No Beer make Homer something something" Marge: "Go Crazy?" Homer: "Don't mind if I do! aaaarrrarrgghar!"
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