On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Still struggling with working out what is going on here. While reading about
> ipfwadm (an older way to setup chains??) I opened /proc/net/ipfw_names and
> /proc/net/ipfw_chains to see if they contained anything - they don't they are 0
> byte files as are all the others in /proc/net. However while I have them open
> my editor tells me every few seconds that another app has modified them,
> the date and time stamps are not changing. Any ideas as to what is going
> on?
Simon, files in the /proc file system are not real files stored on a disk
somewhere, they are magic files managed by the kernel. You really
shouldn't be opening them with an editor - they don't support random
access. Have a look at them using 'cat /proc/...../file' and store data
into them (most won't allow you to) using 'echo 1 > /proc/...../file'.
Charlie Brady
Aurema Pty Ltd
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