Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2012-09-13 17:33, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
[Sigh] /proc is a special filesystem which the kernel uses to expose
information about each process. Apart from the fact that it is mounted
into the standard filesystem namespace, it has absolutely nothing to
do with a physical disc.
Okay.
Didn't know that.
If it's completely in memory then it makes sense.
There are even more borderline cases: things like unix-domain sockets
(named pipes) exist as a named entity on disc, but once opened are
simply a handle in memory.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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