1 '\" te
   2 .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
   3 .\" Copyright (c) 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
   4 .\" Copyright (c) 2013, Joyent, Inc. All rights reserved.
   5 .\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   6 .\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
   7 .\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.  If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
   8 .TH PROC 4 "Jul 23, 2015"
   9 .SH NAME
  10 proc \- /proc, the process file system
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .LP
  13 \fB/proc\fR is a file system that provides access to the state of each process
  14 and light-weight process (lwp) in the system. The name of each entry in the
  15 \fB/proc\fR directory is a decimal number corresponding to a process-ID. These
  16 entries are themselves subdirectories. Access to process state is provided by
  17 additional files contained within each subdirectory; the hierarchy is described
  18 more completely below. In this document, ``\fB/proc\fR file'' refers to a
  19 non-directory file within the hierarchy rooted at \fB/proc\fR. The owner of
  20 each \fB/proc\fR file and subdirectory is determined by the user-ID of the
  21 process.
  22 .sp
  23 .LP
  24 \fB/proc\fR can be mounted on any mount point, in addition to the standard
  25 \fB/proc\fR mount point, and can be mounted several places at once. Such
  26 additional mounts are allowed in order to facilitate the confinement of
  27 processes to subtrees of the file system via \fBchroot\fR(1M) and yet allow
  28 such processes access to commands like \fBps\fR(1).

   1 '\" te
   2 .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
   3 .\" Copyright (c) 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
   4 .\" Copyright (c) 2013, Joyent, Inc. All rights reserved.
   5 .\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   6 .\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
   7 .\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.  If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
   8 .TH PROC 4 "Jun 6, 2016"
   9 .SH NAME
  10 proc \- /proc, the process file system
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .LP
  13 \fB/proc\fR is a file system that provides access to the state of each process
  14 and light-weight process (lwp) in the system. The name of each entry in the
  15 \fB/proc\fR directory is a decimal number corresponding to a process-ID. These
  16 entries are themselves subdirectories. Access to process state is provided by
  17 additional files contained within each subdirectory; the hierarchy is described
  18 more completely below. In this document, ``\fB/proc\fR file'' refers to a
  19 non-directory file within the hierarchy rooted at \fB/proc\fR. The owner of
  20 each \fB/proc\fR file and subdirectory is determined by the user-ID of the
  21 process.
  22 .sp
  23 .LP
  24 \fB/proc\fR can be mounted on any mount point, in addition to the standard
  25 \fB/proc\fR mount point, and can be mounted several places at once. Such
  26 additional mounts are allowed in order to facilitate the confinement of
  27 processes to subtrees of the file system via \fBchroot\fR(1M) and yet allow
  28 such processes access to commands like \fBps\fR(1).