On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:35, Michael Spang wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and > > noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly > > what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the > > procedure file system what ever that is I dont know, secondly why does > > it duplicate my root directory and then create nested copies of it. they > > seem to go on endlessly what perpose does that serve just curiouse. > > Mabey its just my computer but I have tried differant linux > > distrobutions and the all seem to do the same thing. Oh and for the > > record I can not delete them any at all very strange.........????? > > > You can't delete anything in /proc because theres nothing to delete.. > the information is retrieved from memory and formatted when requested by > the kernel. If you examine it closely, you will see that only a few > files actually report a size. 'proc' stands for 'process,' not > procedure. This filesystem is important, as many commands need the > information in provides. The proc(5) manpage explains what many of the > files are. There are lots of symlinks and yes, you can follow them to > get ridiculously long paths for any of the files on your system like > /proc/self/root/proc/self/root/...
This reminds me. I cannot view /proc in Nautilus - even as root. Is there a way to do it? Chris. -- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
