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man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

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Updated: July 2017
 
 

procfs (7FS)

Name

procfs - process file system

Description

The procfs filesystem is the interface to the process sub-system. procfs is mounted during boot at /proc directory. For more information on supported interfaces and the contents of this filesystem, see proc(4).

Files

/proc

Mount point for the procfs file system

<procfs.h>

Header file for procfs interface definitions

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attribute:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/kernel

See Also

proc(1), proc(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5)