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DESCRIPTION

The options are as follows:

-o nolinux

Do not support nodes which are not part of the original procfs implementation but have been added for compatibility with the Linux procfs namespace. See FILES for more information.

The root of the process filesystem contains an entry for each active process. These processes are visible as a directory whose name is the process' pid. In addition, the special entries curproc and self reference the current process. The self symlink appears for compatibility with the Linux procfs implementation.

Each directory contains several files.

cmdline

This file is readonly and returns null-terminated strings corresponding to the process' command line arguments. For a system or zombie process, this file contains only a string with the name of the process.

cwd

A symbolic link that points to the current working directory of the process. If the target process's current working directory is not available or is not at or below the current process's root directory, this link will point to “/”.

fd/#

File descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. See fd(4) for more information.

file

A reference to the vnode from which the process text was read. This can be used to gain access to the process' symbol table, or to start another copy of the process.

map

A map of the process' virtual memory.

maps

A map of the process' virtual memory in a form like the proc filesystem as implemented in Linux. Note that the paths corresponding to file backed mappings will not be present unless the kernel was built with the NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE option.

mem

The complete virtual memory image of the process. Only those addresses which exist in the process can be accessed. Writes to this file modify the process. Writes to the text segment normally remain private to the process, since the text segment is mapped with MAP_PRIVATE; however, this is not guaranteed.

note

Not implemented.

notepg

Not implemented.

regs

Allows read and write access to the process' register set. This file contains a binary data structure struct regs defined in <machine/reg.h>. regs can only be written when the process is stopped.

fpregs

The floating point registers as defined by struct fpregs in <machine/reg.h>. fpregs is only implemented on machines which have distinct general purpose and floating point register sets.

root

A symbolic link that points to the root directory of the process. If the target process's root directory is not available or is not at or below the current process's root directory, this link will point to “/”.

status

The process status. This file is readonly and returns a single line containing multiple space-separated fields as follows:

• command name
• process id
• parent process id
• process group id
• session id
• major,minor of the controlling terminal, or -1,-1 if there is no controlling terminal.
• a list of process flags: ctty if there is a controlling terminal, sldr if the process is a session leader, noflags if neither of the other two flags are set.
• the process start time in seconds and microseconds, comma separated.
• the user time in seconds and microseconds, comma separated.
• the system time in seconds and microseconds, comma separated.
• the wait channel message
• the process credentials consisting of the effective user id and the list of groups (whose first member is the effective group id) all comma separated.