pseudodirectory
See also: pseudo-directory
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editpseudodirectory (plural pseudodirectories)
- (computing) A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated to represent some other objects in the form of files (for example '/proc' in Linux).
- 2010, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux[1]:
- "Mountpoint caution special /proc filesystem (page 497), which maps useful Linux kernel information to a pseudodirectory."