[CentOS] can i copy /proc
Milton Calnek
milton at calnek.com
Tue Mar 18 18:39:17 UTC 2008
mkdir proc
cp /proc/cpuinfo proc
works for me.
So just out of curiosity, what do you hope to accomplish?
John R Pierce wrote:
> chloe K wrote:
>> yes.
>>
>> but i want to copy this file to have the parameter setting in this
>> computer
>> eg: cpuinfo ... interrupt....
>>
>> how can I copy this file?
>
>
> which part of THEY ARE NOT FILES are you missing here?
everything in linux is a file: directories, printers, sockets, named pipes etc.
>
> thats the kernel reporting the ACTUAL cpuinfo. you can''t change that.
> ditto interrupts, etc.
>
> $ cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 0: 2214281030 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 2 XT-PIC i8042
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 6: 6 XT-PIC floppy
> 7: 1 XT-PIC parport0
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 9: 1 XT-PIC acpi, uhci_hcd:usb2
> 11: 218548 XT-PIC eth0
> 12: 1 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1
> 14: 4659843 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 19337609 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
> LOC: 0
> ERR: 0
> MIS: 0
>
> what possible sense would 'copying' that to another system make? I go
> to a different computer...
>
> # cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 0: 1078260604 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 3 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 7: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 9: 75485990 XT-PIC aic7xxx
> 10: 1754046926 XT-PIC eth0
> 14: 131 XT-PIC ide0
> NMI: 0
> ERR: 0
>
> and the different devices are on different IRQs, never mind the IRQ
> counts being different.
>
> anyways, most of whats in /proc is readonly.
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