The proc filesystem is an important feature of Linux that you can’t ignore. proc is a pseudo or virtual filesystem that provides an interface to kernel data structures. In other words, proc isn’t an actual filesystem in the real-world sense; rather, it resides only in memory and not on a disk. It is automatically mounted by the system.
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