On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:51:30PM +0000, andrej hocevar wrote: > dear karsten, > did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or > was it just me reacting prickly?
I did not read all of this thread. But I can assure you Karsten is a nice fellow with some wits. > > Please use postfix quoting format: your reply goes below the material ... Look there is "Please". Anyway, here is my suggestion as below: > > > so now i've found out that there's also the /proc/sys/proc directory > > > to which one should be able to write and thus make modifications to > > > the system. since it is empty, do i just have to create a new file > > > with the name /proc/sys/proc/pci and append only the lines i first > > > wanted to add to /proc/pci? or do i need to copy the whole /proc/pci > > > plus the new lines? You can echo data into some procfile system entries to set parameter if it is supported and writable. > > IIRC (too lazy to search kernel docs: /usr/src/linuc/Documentation), > > /proc/sys/pci is one of the PCI support options in the kernel. You > > *cannot* create files under /proc via standard filesystem commands. > > That's not how proc works. The directory and file structure are > > determined by your kernel. You'll need to compile in appropriate > > support. Yes sure, procfile system entries, which look like files, are created by this way. You can only modify content of it from command line. > > Peace. Cheers ;-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
