Re: How to understand proc directory?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

siegfried wrote:
> > To find the documentation about /proc look in the Documentation 
> > directory under your kernel source root directory under filesystems.
> > It is contained in a file name proc.txt. The path would be:
> > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>
> Could you give me a full pathname assuming the default installation
> directory of c:\cygwin?
>
> I searched my c:\cygwin\usr\ (aka "/usr") directory and could find no file
> called "proc.txt" or directory called "filesystems".

He's talking about Linux kernel source.  It would be under 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems.  If you don't have Linux kernel
source available, just Google for proc.txt.

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