X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:22:14 -0500 From: NightStrike To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: writing to /proc file system In-Reply-To: <20080304152915.GA428@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1614.10.38.32.167.1204643570.squirrel@mail.tmorton.com> <20080304152915.GA428@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 10:12, Jeff Fulmer wrote: > > I'd like to access and write to the /proc file system from a java program. > > Can somebody steer me in the right direction? I'm starting to feel that > > I've exhausted my search options... > > /proc is not writable on Cygwin. I'm pretty sure it's not writable on any system, let alone cygwin. It's not a real filesystem per se. It's instead a read-only gateway into the kernel. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/