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Re: writing to /proc file system

On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mar  4 10:12, Jeff Fulmer wrote:
> > I'd like to access and write to the /proc file system from a java program.
> > Can somebody steer me in the right direction? I'm starting to feel that
> > I've exhausted my search options...
>
> /proc is not writable on Cygwin.

I'm pretty sure it's not writable on any system, let alone cygwin.
It's not a real filesystem per se.  It's instead a read-only gateway
into the kernel.

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