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Siegfried,
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

Cal Erickson

siegfried wrote:
> Where is a good place to start learning about the proc directory? I'm not
> all that familiar with it on *nix. Should I look in the cygwin documentation
> or go to the forums on unix.org (where they specialize in *nix but not
> cygwin)?
> 
> I tried "man proc" and "info proc" and that did not work. Is there some
> documetation in c:\cygwin\usr\share? This directory tree seems to be
> organized around applications, not special directories. I tried "man
> cygcheck" but again, that seems to deal with applications, not directories.
> 
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
> 
> 
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