Close (probably even closer than it 'sounded' to me)...
/dev is a real directory and is 'normal' in every way. However, the
files in /dev are usually rather special in the sense that I think you
are referring.
/proc OTOH is not really a 'real' directory. It exists in the kernel,
gets mounted and
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, tony mollica wrote:
> I've found a file in /proc named kcore, with a size of about 67
> megabytes.
> Can someone tell me what this is and where it is generated from?
>
It is just a computers RAM mapped into the filesystem.
Wojtek Za
"Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have heard it said that unix works entirely on files. It always baffled
> me to hear that, being a hardware engineer, and writing mostly in low level
> assemblers. Now I think I understand what what meant, and that all tasks
> are created as a 'file' a
"Ian Perry" wrote:
>I have heard it said that unix works entirely on files. It always baffled
>me to hear that, being a hardware engineer, and writing mostly in low level
>assemblers. Now I think I understand what what meant, and that all tasks
>are created as a 'file' and are acted on ac
e the /dev
directory and the /proc directory. Am I correct in assuming this ?
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> From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: tony mollica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian_user_list
> Subject: Re: kcore
> Date: Thursday, 19 February 1998 15:25
>
> kcore == kern
kcore == kernel core memory. It should be the amount of mem you have or
close. It is not a real file, nothing in /proc is.
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