> On 19 Mar 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?
better: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/proc.html <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/proc.html> "proc is very special in that it is also a virtual filesystem. It's sometimes referred to as a process information pseudo-file system. It doesn't contain 'real' files but runtime system information (e.g. system memory, devices mounted, hardware configuration, etc). For this reason it can be regarded as a control and information centre for the kernel. In fact, quite a lot of system utilities are simply calls to files in this directory.” last part of that sentence is what made me think that *maybe* FilePlugin should thread them as regular files… :) Esteban > > Norbert > > >
