From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arunkr.linux@gmail.com (Arun M Kumar) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:33:39 +0530 Subject: Significance of " /proc//root" Message-ID: <5236048B.6030906@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org What is the significance of the directory named root inside /proc/ ? ex: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- arunkumar at arun-ThinkPad-Edge-E530:/proc/2543/root$ ls bin cdrom etc initrd.img lib media opt root sbin srv tmp var vmlinuz.old boot dev home initrd.img.old lost+found mnt proc run selinux sys usr vmlinuz ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------