Linux – Documentation for Contents of /proc

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Is there a site someplace that lists the contents of /proc and what each entry means?

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The documentation for Linux's implementation of /proc is in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt in the kernel documentation.

Beware that /proc is one of the areas where *ixes differ most. It started out as a System V specific feature, was then greatly extended by Linux, and is now in the process of being deprecated by things like /sys. The BSDs — including OS X — haven't adopted it at all. Therefore, if you write a program or script that accesses things in /proc, there is a good chance it won't work on other *ixes.

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