On 05/12/13 14:42, Dennis Poon wrote: > >> While your method should work if that file actually exists, you >> probably want to use libudev for enumerating and getting device >> information from sysfs. libudev will also enable you to get >> hotplug notification. >> >> > For your your reply. The fact is: 1) my linux distro starts with > eth1 not eth0. Strange. I know. 2) my question was, why simply 'cat' > works but I cannot read it from fpc usign Tfilestream or readlin(F, > S); > > Since I don't have time to invest in a portable solution, I am happy > already if it works on my particular xubuntu distro. > > Dennis
Try installing strace and use it : strace <your executable name> from command line/terminal ? -L. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
