Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:41:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Donny Lee <donnylee@usa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc Message-ID: <19981218124148.J486@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3679BAA7.B0C8B6DE@usa.net>; from Donny Lee on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 10:15:03AM %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812172024110.5241-100000@ogurok.com> <3679BAA7.B0C8B6DE@usa.net>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 10:15:03 +0800, Donny Lee wrote: > Oleg Ogurok wrote: >>> What is /proc for? >>> becuase it's already full can I delete them ? >> No, you can't. It's always full. It has immage of all the processes >> running on your machine. Without it you couldn't even use the "ps" >> command. > > then is it located somewhere in a slice? can one mount it > in other place, asy a mfs? No, it's not on disk. It's a pseudo-file system, just an idea in the mind of the kernel. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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