1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>Chapter&#160;2.&#160;The proc filesystem</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API"><link rel="prev" href="API-lookup-bdev.html" title="lookup_bdev"><link rel="next" href="API-proc-dostring.html" title="proc_dostring"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter&#160;2.&#160;The proc filesystem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-lookup-bdev.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">&#160;</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-proc-dostring.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="proc"></a>Chapter&#160;2.&#160;The proc filesystem</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="proc.html#sysctl_interface">sysctl interface</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="proc_filesystem_interface.html">proc filesystem interface</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sysctl_interface"></a>sysctl interface</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-dostring.html"><span class="phrase">proc_dostring</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
2  read a string sysctl
3 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-dointvec.html"><span class="phrase">proc_dointvec</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
4     read a vector of integers
5 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-dointvec-minmax.html"><span class="phrase">proc_dointvec_minmax</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
6     read a vector of integers with min/max values
7 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-doulongvec-minmax.html"><span class="phrase">proc_doulongvec_minmax</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
8     read a vector of long integers with min/max values
9 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-doulongvec-ms-jiffies-minmax.html"><span class="phrase">proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
10     read a vector of millisecond values with min/max values
11 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-dointvec-jiffies.html"><span class="phrase">proc_dointvec_jiffies</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
12     read a vector of integers as seconds
13 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-dointvec-userhz-jiffies.html"><span class="phrase">proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
14     read a vector of integers as 1/USER_HZ seconds
15 </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="API-proc-dointvec-ms-jiffies.html"><span class="phrase">proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> &#8212; 
16     read a vector of integers as 1 milliseconds
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