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Linux Forums: Understanding /proc

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Throughout my experience, many users on Linux Help Forums or
IRC have had questions that require information from /proc to
diagnose. And every single time, I’ve had to walk them through the
process of using and understanding /proc so that I could help them
with their problem. For that reason, I think that a brief tutorial
on the basics of /proc is in order.

“When it comes down to it, /proc is a filesystem…”

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