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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!step.eng.umd.edu!chuckr From: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1 (REL) filesystem Date: 17 May 1994 01:32:19 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Lines: 15 Message-ID: <2r96r3$1hn@mojo.eng.umd.edu> References: <2qsrr2$kkq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: step.eng.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Brendt Wohlberg (brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za) wrote: : I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows what "proc" is. Proc lets you look directly at the memory of executing processes. I think in FreeBSD its used for the ps command, and I think its been used for debuggers. Not something to play with randomly unless you like panics. -- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | (301) 459-2316 | ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------