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RE: writing to /proc file system
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:29:31 -0500
- Subject: RE: writing to /proc file system
On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen 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 would have thought that /proc/registry might be writable, at least
in as far as one had permissions to do so using other tools.
(I suppose that the above carries a hidden request to add regtool-type
functions to the cygwin1.dll. That's not my intent; I almost never
modify the registry.)
- Barry
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