Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:24:25 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: sed not working on /proc files |
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Hi,
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:51:54 +0200, Rafal Maszkowski <rzm@icm.edu.pl> said:
> /proc files could pretend to be pipes. Would it spoil any programme > behaviour?
It would spoil the kernel: the kernel works very hard to make sure that even when you have different filesystem types present, the pipe and socket code is all handled by common code, not by the particular filesystem involved. You'd have to break that abstraction to give pipes special meaning inside /proc.
--Stephen
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