Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 336

/proc/config.gz
gzip-compressed configuration file of the kernel currently running
Further information is available in the text file /usr/src/linux/
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. Find information about processes
currently running in the /proc/NNN directories, where NNN is the process ID (PID)
of the relevant process. Every process can find its own characteristics in /proc/self/
:
tester@linux:~> ls -l /proc/self
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 2006-01-09 13:03 /proc/self -> 5356
tester@linux:~> ls -l /proc/self/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 attr
-r-------- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 auxv
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 cmdline
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 cwd -> /home/tester
-r-------- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 environ
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 exe -> /bin/ls
dr-x------ 2 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 loginuid
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 maps
-rw------- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 mem
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 mounts
-rw-r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 oom_adj
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 oom_score
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 root -> /
-rw------- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 seccomp
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 smaps
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 stat
[...]
dr-xr-xr-x 3 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 task
-r--r--r-- 1 tester users 0 2006-01-09 17:04 wchan
The address assignment of executables and libraries is contained in the maps file:
tester@linux:~> cat /proc/self/maps
08048000-0804c000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 17753
0804c000-0804d000 rw-p 00004000 03:03 17753
0804d000-0806e000 rw-p 0804d000 00:00 0
b7d27000-b7d5a000 r--p 00000000 03:03 11867
b7d5a000-b7e32000 r--p 00000000 03:03 11868
b7e32000-b7e33000 rw-p b7e32000 00:00 0
b7e33000-b7f45000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 8837
b7f45000-b7f46000 r--p 00112000 03:03 8837
b7f46000-b7f48000 rw-p 00113000 03:03 8837
b7f48000-b7f4c000 rw-p b7f48000 00:00 0
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/bin/cat
/bin/cat
[heap]
/usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/
/usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/
/lib/libc-2.3.6.so
/lib/libc-2.3.6.so
/lib/libc-2.3.6.so