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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:33:55 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cd /proc/garbage
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On Apr 14 06:18, Lev S Bishop wrote:
> I looked and this doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the archives. 
> You can cd to any random subdirectory of a directory in the /proc 
> filesystem, irrespective of whether it exists. Examples:
> 
> $ cd /proc/banana
> $ ls
> ls: .: Not a directory
> $ cd /proc/self/banana
> $ ls
> ls: .: Not a directory
> $ cd /proc/self/fd/banana
> $ ls
> ls: .: Not a directory
> 
> However it only works one level deep:
> 
> $ cd /proc/banana/banana
> bash: cd: /proc/banana/banana: No such file or directory

For now the answer is, "Don't do it".


Corinna

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