Gentoo:/proc/self

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A link to the currently running process. Points to an PID directory in /proc.

You can use it to find out interesting information about a job as it runs. For example, (using C++ syntax):

std::ifstream proc("/proc/self/status");

Will allow you to find out how much memory your current C++ program is taking up.

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