My goal is to learn as much about the kernel and kernel security in
relation to networking. I wish to start by exploring the /proc file
system as it shows everything pretty much in real time and then move on
to the kernel source itself.
A while back, 4, 5 years ago, I used to program in assembler (for dos
only tho), C++, and others, I understand the old x86 architecture,
however I have not kept up with the news pretty much after pentium was
released.
I bet EAX is out dated ... there must be a 64/128 bit type registers now
?
Anyway, I wish to understand every number in every file in the proc, so
that I may write system utilities, as that is what I used to do and wish
to do so now for linux. However it is hard to try to figure out what the
numbers mean. I do not suppose there is a white paper or any sort of
docs to explain what files/numbers represent.
Can you possibly suggest how I may go about learning the proc file
system ? At this stage it would not be efficient for me to go into the
code, as I'm relearning programming in C for linux.
Also you have any docs in terms of Linux and SMP, specially pertaining
to security I would be mostly interested.
Thank You Kindly.
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