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siegfried wrote:
>> To find the documentation about /proc look in the Documentation 
>> directory under your kernel source root directory under filesystems.
>> It is contained in a file name proc.txt. The path would be:
>> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> 
> Could you give me a full pathname assuming the default installation
> directory of c:\cygwin?
> 
> I searched my c:\cygwin\usr\ (aka "/usr") directory and could find no file
> called "proc.txt" or directory called "filesystems".

He's talking about Linux kernel source.  It would be under 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems.  If you don't have Linux kernel
source available, just Google for proc.txt.

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