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> This guide describes the use of the procfs file system from
within the Linux kernel. The idea to write this guide came up on
the #kernelnewbies IRC channel (see <A
HREF="http://www.kernelnewbies.org/"
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>http://www.kernelnewbies.org/</A
>),
when Jeff Garzik explained the use of procfs and forwarded me a
message Alexander Viro wrote to the linux-kernel mailing list. I
agreed to write it up nicely, so here it is.
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> I'd like to thank Jeff Garzik
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> and Alexander Viro
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><<A
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>viro@math.psu.edu</A
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> for their input, Tim Waugh
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> for his <A
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and Marc Joosen <TT
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> for
proofreading.
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> This documentation was written while working on the LART
computing board (<A
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> Erik
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