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?
"proc is very special in that it is also a virtual filesystem. It's sometimes referred to as a process information pseudo-file system. It doesn't contain 'real' files but runtime system information (e.g. system memory, devices mounted, hardware configuration, etc). For this reason it can be regarded as a control and information centre for the kernel. In fact, quite a lot of system utilities are simply calls to files in this directory.���
last part of that sentence is what made me think that *maybe* FilePlugin should thread them as regular files��� :)