Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <41FC0A3E.5020702@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:12:14 -0800 From: linda w User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'Cygwin List'" Subject: /proc functionality; ls errors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Had another Question regarding the /proc file system. If I am in /proc (Cygwin Window, bash) and I type the command "'ls' -l" I get: /proc> 'ls' -l ls: loadavg: Operation not permitted ls: meminfo: Operation not permitted ls: registry: Operation not permitted ls: stat: Operation not permitted ls: version: Operation not permitted ls: uptime: Operation not permitted ls: cpuinfo: Operation not permitted ls: partitions: Operation not permitted ls: 852: Operation not permitted ls: 912: Operation not permitted ls: 2372: Operation not permitted ls: 1272: Operation not permitted ls: 1824: Operation not permitted total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 15 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 1272 dr-xr-xr-x 15 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 1824 dr-xr-xr-x 15 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 28 23:58 2372 dr-xr-xr-x 15 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Jan 25 14:16 852 dr-xr-xr-x 15 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Jan 25 14:16 912 -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 cpuinfo -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 loadavg -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 meminfo -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 partitions dr-xr-xr-x 9 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 registry -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 stat -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 uptime -r--r--r-- 1 law Domain Admins 0 Jan 29 13:17 version Why do I get the "operation not permitted" errors? Same holds true for values in the registry subtree: /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion> ll ls: AdminDebug: Operation not permitted ls: App Management: Operation not permitted ls: App Paths: Operation not permitted ls: Applets: Operation not permitted ls: BITS: Operation not permitted ls: Control Panel: Operation not permitted ls: Controls Folder: Operation not permitted ls: CSCSettings: Operation not permitted ls: DateTime: Operation not permitted ls: Dynamic Directory: Operation not permitted ls: Explorer: Operation not permitted ls: Extensions: Operation not permitted ls: Fault: Operation not permitted ls: Fonts: Operation not permitted ls: Group Policy: Operation not permitted ls: H323TSP: Operation not permitted ls: Hints: Operation not permitted ls: Installer: Operation not permitted ls: Internet Settings: Operation not permitted ls: IPConfTSP: Operation not permitted ... ls: SM_ConfigureProgramsName: Operation not permitted ls: RegDone: Operation not permitted ls: SM_AccessoriesName: Operation not permitted ls: ProductKey: Operation not permitted total 0 dr-xr-x--- 1 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 AdminDebug/ dr-xr-x--- 4 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 App Management/ dr-xr-x--- 116 Administrators 0 Jan 20 14:18 App Paths/ dr-xr-x--- 1 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 Applets/ dr-xr-x--- 0 Administrators 0 Jan 25 14:17 BITS/ dr-xr-x--- 0 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 CSCSettings/ -r--r----- 1 Administrators 30 Jan 21 17:04 CommonFilesDir dr-xr-x--- 5 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 Control Panel/ dr-xr-x--- 6 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 Controls Folder/ dr-xr-x--- 1 Administrators 0 Mar 26 2003 DateTime/ --- Is there a system call that is unnecessarily returning a failure? Not that this is holding up anything...more of an integration issue. Thanks (sorry to keep asking so many questions, but I don't always know about all the internal decisions/tradeoffs that have been made or the details of some of these workings... Linda -- 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/