Further Understanding of Proc
February 1, 2025 · 3 min read · Page View:
The /proc in Linux is a kind of Pseudo file system (also known as Virtual File System), what it saves is a series of special files that store the current running state of the kernel, and the user can check the hardware info and the runnning processes via the files, even adjust some files to change the state of running kernel. The files in /proc will be refresh in RAM, so the files’ size is 0 bytes.
