A fundamental design feature of Unix-like Operating Systems is that many of a system’s resources are accessible via the filesystem, as a file. For example the procfs pseudo-filesystem offers us access to all kinds of valuable treasures.
A fundamental design feature of Unix-like Operating Systems is that many of a system’s resources are accessible via the filesystem, as a file. For example the procfs pseudo-filesystem offers us access to all kinds of valuable treasures.
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