/proc are entries in the filesystem, as such I don't see why the file plugin would fail to access them�� unless you cannot use block devices and such like any other file? In Unix, everything is a file, except those that have to be special-cased apart?

On 19 March 2015 at 13:08, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:

> Am 19.03.2015 um 11:51 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>:

>
>
>> On 19 Mar 2015, at 11:35, Julien Delplanque <julien@tamere.eu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19/03/15 11:10, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>>> '/proc/uptime' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :stream | stream contents ].
>>>
>>> is better way.
>>>
>>> but you will still get an empty string because actually ��/proc�� does not contains real files�� so the file plugin does not applies there (and is another debate if it should��)
>>>
>>> you should use OSProcess instead (installable from Configurations Browser)
>>>
>>> (PipeableOSProcess command: 'uptime') upToEndOfFile.
>>>
>>> Esteban
>> Oh, I didn't know '/proc' doesn't contains real files. I tought there
>> were files in this directory since you do 'cat /proc/uptime' in a shell.
>
> that��s the O.S. cheating you :)
>

Can you elaborate on that statement. What is a "real" file and why are the files in /proc not real?

Norbert