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LINPROCFS(5)		 DragonFly File Formats Manual		  LINPROCFS(5)

NAME

linprocfs -- Linux process file system

SYNOPSIS

linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

DESCRIPTION

The Linux process file system, or linprocfs, emulates a subset of Linux' process file system and is required for the complete operation of some Linux binaries. The linprocfs provides a two-level view of process space. At the highest level, processes themselves are named, according to their process ids in decimal, with no leading zeros. There is also a special node called self which always refers to the process making the lookup request. Each node is a directory which contains the following entries: Each directory contains several files: exe A reference to the vnode from which the process text was read. This can be used to gain access to the process' symbol table, or to start another copy of the process. mem The complete virtual memory image of the process. Only those addresses which exist in the process can be accessed. Reads and writes to this file modify the process. Writes to the text seg- ment remain private to the process. Each node is owned by the process's user, and belongs to that user's pri- mary group, except for the mem node, which belongs to the kmem group.

FILES

/compat/linux/proc normal mount point for the linprocfs. /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo CPU vendor and model information in human-readable form. /compat/linux/proc/meminfo System memory information in human-read- able form. /compat/linux/proc/pid directory containing process information for process pid. /compat/linux/proc/self directory containing process information for the current process /compat/linux/proc/self/exe executable image /compat/linux/proc/self/mem the complete virtual address space of the process

SEE ALSO

mount(2), unmount(2), procfs(5), mount_linprocfs(8)

HISTORY

The linprocfs first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.

AUTHORS

The linprocfs was derived from procfs by Pierre Beyssac. This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav, based on the procfs(5) manual page by Garrett Wollman. DragonFly 4.7 August 10, 1994 DragonFly 4.7

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