Re: sed not working on /proc files
Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 5 May 1999 13:22:44 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
[SNIPPED]
>
> The "files" in /proc should in my opinion not pretend to be files:
> they should be "pipes". Many programs stat their input file, and if
> they get "normal file", they have all sorts of assumptions on tricks
> they can do.
>
> For example, "wc -c" will just return the st_size of the file, instead
> of doing all the work that is normally involved in counting the file.
>
>
> Roger.
>
Just for kicks, I changed them all to pipes, i.e., named FIFOS. This
broke most of the tools like 'ps`. I gave up.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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