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On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:

> See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted =
filesystems on
> your machine. =20

$ mount | grep proc
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)

>=20
> *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem.  It is merely =
a
> _directory_ with a bunch of 'special' files in it.

I'm confused here. In what way isn't /proc a separate filesystem? It's =
even called "procfs".