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Re: unkown proc directory in root
On Feb 19 17:27, Wynfield Henman wrote:
> I just noticed a new (or I just noticed it) directory in what should
> be the root directory or C:\cygwin, which should be the same as I
> understand it. But, why do I get different contents, i.e., an
> interesting subdirectory "proc" only shows up on ls /, but not
> ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin as shown below:
>
> $ ls /
> bin cygwin.bat debug.log home libexec sbin usr
> cygdrive cygwin.ico etc lib proc tmp var
>
>
> $ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin
> bin cygwin.bat debug.log home libexec tmp var
> cygdrive cygwin.ico etc lib sbin usr
/proc is a virtual directory. It doesn't exist on the disk. It's
the same /proc as on Linux, just smaller and more restricted in its
properties.
Corinna
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