Accessing proc File System
Nanik Tolaram · Apress eBooks · 2022
In Chapter 2 , you looked at the /sys filesystem in Linux and wrote a simple app to extract information from it. In this chapter, you are going to take a look at another system directory called /proc. The /proc directory is also known as procfs, and it contains useful information about processes that are currently running. The kernel uses it as an information center for all related processes.