From: navkamal90@gmail.com (Navkamal Rakra)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Significance of " /proc/<pid>/root"
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:10:43 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5237C12B.9030901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5236048B.6030906@gmail.com>
On 09/16/2013 12:33 AM, Arun M Kumar wrote:
> What is the significance of the directory named root inside /proc/<pid> ?
>
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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It keeps record of all data (system level) , resources and parameters
for that process . You can get more idea here :
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-15 19:03 Significance of " /proc/<pid>/root" Arun M Kumar
2013-09-15 19:28 ` Adel BENZARTI
2013-09-17 2:40 ` Navkamal Rakra [this message]
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