A Quick Look At The Proc Filesystem

When looking through the filesystem of a Linux system you may notice a directory named /proc . It's a fascinating directory which exposes many of the internal data for the kernel. I'd like to show some of the interesting information you can get from /proc as well as some practical applications in popular software. Finding One's Self One of the more interesting pieces of information you can find is for the current process located in /proc/self : cwprogram@rpi:/proc $ ls -lah /proc/self/ total 0 d