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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1 (REL) filesystem Date: Sun, 22 May 94 12:30:43 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <hWwOV7z.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2qsrr2$kkq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <2r96r3$1hn@mojo.eng.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1c.delphi.com X-To: Charles B. Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Charles B. Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> writes: >Brendt Wohlberg (brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za) wrote: > >: I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows what "proc" is. >Proc lets you look directly at the memory of executing processes. >I think in FreeBSD its used for the ps command, and I think its been >used for debuggers. Not something to play with randomly unless you >like panics. Yes, our /proc (on FreeBSD) was only implemented to support ps. It gives us a layer between the ps process and the swap space. Otherwise, the kvm code in libutil gets really ugly. On FreeBSD 2.0, /proc will have more uses -- it currently is most useful for the ps command, and it is best to ignore otherwise :-). John dyson@implode.root.com