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- From: roberts@decsun3.cray.com
- Subject: /proc inquiry
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.183447.27930@walter.cray.com>
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- Sender: roberts@decsun3 (Michael Roberts {67000 CF/DEV})
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Chippewa Falls, WI
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:34:47 CST
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- I've been trying to use the proc filesystem and have a small problem.
- I am using linux 0.99 pl1, but I get the same results with pl0.
- I am mounting /proc with the command
-
- mount -t proc /proc /proc
-
- which works fine, I can "cd /proc" and see directories for each process.
- However, when I go into any of these, the links point nowhere:
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- cwd -> ---
- exe -> ---
- root -> ---
-
- Doing a "cd cwd" leaves me in the same place. Same thing goes for the
- links in the "fd" directory and "lib" directory. Am I correct in thinking
- that the link should point to the actual files or directories? I am
- doing all this as root, so there shouldn't be any permission problems.
-
- I've searched the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer there. Any help
- here would be much appreciated.
-
- Mike Roberts
-