All I was hiding from stderr is the non-existing stuff you mentioned. I only wanted to show process directories (starting with a digit). This is the full content of my /proc. Sorry for the long listing. Just wanted you to "see" the problem:
Code:
santiago@alphard:~$ ls -l /proc/
total 0
dr-xr-x--- 7 santiago root 0 Jun 29 11:02 7476
dr-xr-x--- 7 santiago root 0 Jun 29 11:02 7477
dr-xr-x--- 7 santiago root 0 Jun 29 11:02 7506
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 acpi
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 buddyinfo
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 bus
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 cgroups
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 cmdline
-r-------- 1 root root 22624 Jun 29 11:02 config.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 consoles
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 cpuinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 crypto
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 devices
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 diskstats
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 dma
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 drbd
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 driver
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 execdomains
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 fb
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 filesystems
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 fs
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 ide
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 interrupts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 iomem
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 ioports
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 ipmi
dr-xr-xr-x 32 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 irq
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 kallsyms
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 key-users
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 2016 kmsg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 loadavg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 locks
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 2016 mdstat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 meminfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 misc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 29 11:02 mounts -> self/mounts
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 mpt
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 mtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 mtrr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 29 11:02 net -> self/net
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 pagetypeinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 partitions
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 scsi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 29 2016 self -> 7506
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 slabinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 softirqs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 stat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 swaps
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 15 18:46 sys
--w------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 sysrq-trigger
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 sysvipc
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 timer_list
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 tty
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 uptime
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 version
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 vmallocinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 vmstat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 11:02 zoneinfo
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