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procfs began life (on Solaris?) as a virtual filesystem dedicated to exporting process information. Over time, it has grown substantially on any number of operating systems. It is pretty much a required interface on [[Linux APIs|Linux]], and strongly recommended on Solaris and [[FreeBSD]].
procfs began life (on Solaris?) as a virtual filesystem dedicated to exporting process information. Over time, it has grown substantially on any number of operating systems. It is pretty much a required interface on [[Linux APIs|Linux]], and strongly recommended on Solaris and [[FreeBSD]].
==proc/PID==
Each entity associated with a non-zero PID (this includes most kernel threads) has a corresponding toplevel procfs directory named by its PID (e.g. when using [[systemd]] as init and mounting procfs at `/proc`, systemd's primary process is described by `/proc/1` (the process only appears in procfs mounts within the same PID namespace). One of the entries is `proc/PID/task`, a directory which contains the threads making up the process, using the TID as name:
<pre>
[schwarzgerat](1) $ grep ^Threads: /proc/`pidof rtorrent`/status
Threads: 3
[schwarzgerat](0) $ ls /proc/`pidof rtorrent`/task
4282  4283  4309
[schwarzgerat](0) $
</pre>
procfs since Linux 3.3 accepts a mount option `hidepid`, taking one of three values:
* 0: everyone may access all `proc/PID` directories
* 1: users can only access their own `proc/PID` directories
* 2: users can only *see* their own `proc/PID` directories
Linux 3.3 also introduced the `gid` parameter, which specifies a group ID. Members of this group are exempted from `hidepid` restrictions.
===proc/PID/stat sucks===
`/proc/PID/stat`


==See Also==
==See Also==
* The [[sysfs]] page
* The [[sysfs]] page

Revision as of 13:38, 11 October 2019

procfs began life (on Solaris?) as a virtual filesystem dedicated to exporting process information. Over time, it has grown substantially on any number of operating systems. It is pretty much a required interface on Linux, and strongly recommended on Solaris and FreeBSD.

proc/PID

Each entity associated with a non-zero PID (this includes most kernel threads) has a corresponding toplevel procfs directory named by its PID (e.g. when using systemd as init and mounting procfs at `/proc`, systemd's primary process is described by `/proc/1` (the process only appears in procfs mounts within the same PID namespace). One of the entries is `proc/PID/task`, a directory which contains the threads making up the process, using the TID as name:

[schwarzgerat](1) $ grep ^Threads: /proc/`pidof rtorrent`/status
Threads:	3
[schwarzgerat](0) $ ls /proc/`pidof rtorrent`/task
4282  4283  4309
[schwarzgerat](0) $ 

procfs since Linux 3.3 accepts a mount option `hidepid`, taking one of three values:

  • 0: everyone may access all `proc/PID` directories
  • 1: users can only access their own `proc/PID` directories
  • 2: users can only *see* their own `proc/PID` directories

Linux 3.3 also introduced the `gid` parameter, which specifies a group ID. Members of this group are exempted from `hidepid` restrictions.

proc/PID/stat sucks

`/proc/PID/stat`

See Also