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Old 08-16-2004, 04:07 AM   #1
dawsonbdky
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/proc filesystem


Hi,

Can you please tell me what the Linux /proc filesystem contains that the Solaris equivilant doesn't.

Thank you for your help.

Ben.
 
Old 08-16-2004, 10:06 AM   #2
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Not knowing anything about Solaris, I can't easily answer that.

But I can tell you that (under Linux) files and directories /proc/ are handled by individual kernel modules, so it's possible for a device driver to add entries to the /proc/ filesystem (usually for information and control for one or more devices).

So what you get under /proc/ in Linux depends on which kernel modules you have installed and loaded.

Hope that's of some help,

— Robert J. Lee
 
  


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