* Significance of " /proc/<pid>/root" @ 2013-09-15 19:03 Arun M Kumar 2013-09-15 19:28 ` Adel BENZARTI 2013-09-17 2:40 ` Navkamal Rakra 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Arun M Kumar @ 2013-09-15 19:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Significance of " /proc/<pid>/root" 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 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Adel BENZARTI @ 2013-09-15 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies /proc/<pid>/root is a link for the root filesystem. This link helps when using chroot. ________________________________ From: Arun M Kumar <arunkr.linux@gmail.com> To: Kernel Newbies Mailing List <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 8:03 PM Subject: Significance of " /proc/<pid>/root" 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20130915/c7dc190a/attachment.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Significance of " /proc/<pid>/root" 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 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Navkamal Rakra @ 2013-09-17 2:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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