Mark Weaver wrote: > > no problem. personally I've always wondered why the proc file system > exists at all as part of the file system. ya can't do anything with it; > it's more of a tease than anything else. When I first started with Linux > years ago I wasn't aware of it's "specialness" and looked like the > monkey with his fist in a jar trying to do things with those "files" in > there. ;P > In Unix (and hence Linux), everything's a file. A network connexion's a file, a pipe's a file, a disk's a file, a serial port's a file .... Mostly, you can use the same "file" operations on any of them. I gather that on some systems, everything's virtual memory. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list