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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 17:51:18 -0700
From: Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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Chris January wrote:
> 
> I'll probably add some entries to /proc - ones commonly found on UNIX
> platforms maybe. Anyone have any favourites they wish to see?

I don't know about "favorite", but the only one that's even close to
standardized across Unices is /proc/<pid>.  And even that is nonstandard
everywhere: it's a bunch of text files on Linux, and a bunch of binary
files by different names under recent SysVR4.  (Or SVR5, as Caldera nee
SCO insists on calling it.)

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