On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, David Rysdam wrote:
> Except for the fact that it takes up no disk space it IS a real file.
> It quacks like a duck. So what you have there is a physical copy of the
> contents of RAM at the moment you copied. Delete the copy and leave the
> original alone. Everything in the /proc filesystem is virtual and takes
> up zero space. To prove this, do the following:
>
> cd /proc
> du
>
> Note that du (diskusage) reports 0.
>
OK. I gave that a try. YOu are right. That shows zero bytes all the way
down. That was real neat!! Thanks very much. It puts my mind more to rest.
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