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jone kim

06-15-2010 07:32 AM

/proc/

Under the /proc/ many files are named using numbers like 1,10,1099,.......Why is it so?

rayfordj

06-15-2010 07:47 AM

Because they are PIDs.

example:

Code:

$ ls -l /proc/$(pgrep firefox)/exe

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user group 0 2010-06-15 07:44 /proc/5633/exe -> /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5/firefox

syg00

06-15-2010 08:01 AM

"man proc"

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