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Old 06-15-2010, 07:32 AM   #1
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Under the /proc/ many files are named using numbers like 1,10,1099,.......Why is it so?
 
Old 06-15-2010, 07:47 AM   #2
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Because they are PIDs.

example:
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$ 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
 
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