What is /proc/misc?

Hewitt Tech hewitt_tech at attbi.com
Wed Aug 14 16:00:13 EDT 2002


I just did a quick google search and saw where someone listed the contents
of /proc/misc on his Tecra laptop. He saw:

/proc/devices
Character devices:
 1 mem
 2 pty
 3 ttyp
 4 ttyp
 5 cua
 7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
127 pcmcia

Block devices:
 2 fd
 3 ide0

/proc/misc
  1 ps2aux
134 apm

So I would say it's yet another listing of miscellaneous devices on a system
as seen by Linux.
-Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: <pll at lanminds.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: What is /proc/misc?


>
> Anyone know *what* this is, what it's used for, and what types of
> kernel configurations lead to it being a non-zero byte file populated
> with stuff? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Paul
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