/proc are entries in the filesystem, as such I don't see why the file plugin would fail to access them… unless you cannot use block devices and such like any other file? In Unix, everything is a file, except those that have to be special-cased apart?
On 19 March 2015 at 13:08, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > > Am 19.03.2015 um 11:51 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>: > > > > > >> On 19 Mar 2015, at 11:35, Julien Delplanque <jul...@tamere.eu> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 19/03/15 11:10, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > >>> '/proc/uptime' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :stream | stream > contents ]. > >>> > >>> is better way. > >>> > >>> but you will still get an empty string because actually ‘/proc’ does > not contains real files… so the file plugin does not applies there (and is > another debate if it should…) > >>> > >>> you should use OSProcess instead (installable from Configurations > Browser) > >>> > >>> (PipeableOSProcess command: 'uptime') upToEndOfFile. > >>> > >>> Esteban > >> Oh, I didn't know '/proc' doesn't contains real files. I tought there > >> were files in this directory since you do 'cat /proc/uptime' in a shell. > > > > that’s the O.S. cheating you :) > > > Can you elaborate on that statement. What is a "real" file and why are the > files in /proc not real? > > Norbert > > > >
