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From: banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: swapinfo under NetBSD-1.0
Date: 24 Nov 1994 01:30:01 GMT
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whats procfs and why would I want to use it?

a filesystem with the running processes in it?
What uses such a thing?

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