A MacFUSE-Based Process File System for Mac OS X© Amit Singh. All Rights Reserved. Written in May 2007 Processes as Files The process file system ("procfs" for brevity, or simply "/proc", because that's where it is usually mounted) has become a common entity on Unix-like systems. For example, Solaris, Linux, and the various modern BSDs all have procfs. In general, procfs uses the file metaphor to provide both a view of currently running process
