Oddity in /proc/

[Matthew S-H]

No its not!!????!????!??  I get:
$ sudo ls -l /proc/1/auxv
dr-xr-----  1 root root 0 Apr 20 19:56 /proc/1/auxv

On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Kenton Brede wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:53:29PM -0400, Matthew S-H 
> (mathbymath at aol.com) wrote:
>> I seem to have found an "oddity" in "/proc/".  Chances are, all of the
>> experts on this list know about this and I'm just showing off my
>> newb-ish-ness, but i would like to ask anyway.
>>
>> When I type in "sudo ls /proc/1/auxv", I don't get a "normal" output.
>> It outputs "/proc/1/auxv".  Is this normal?  Shouldn't it list some
>> files?  And when I type in the same thing with the -a parameter,
>> shouldn't it show the implied "." and ".." directories?  For some
>> reason it doesn't.
>
> This isn't a directory it is a file.
>
> $ sudo ls -l /proc/1/auxv
> -r--------  1 root root 0 Apr 20 19:56 /proc/1/auxv
>
> Kent
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