[LBo] Ex 3.6.3 - Strange Behaviour

[James Allen]

On 11/12/06, Geoff Jones <geoffjones99 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I presumed the point of the Ex 3.6.3 is to practice navigating in cli and
> cat'ing files such as modules, cpuinfo,filesystems etc.
>
> I was doing the exercise in bash - but also had Konqueror open as
> a "file-manager". In Konqueror all the /proc files are reported as " 0 B and
> Empty Document"!
> If I right click in Konqueror + do "Open with ... " , then gedit,kwrite or
> kate, they  all indeed open blank files . [ I think Jisao mentioned this ?].
> However, if in bash I cat the files, they do have content - albeit pretty
> small. [ Also "Open with..." kedit or open office writer shows content ].
>
> Is this an example of "gui" being less exact than "cli" , or just differences
> in text formatting ?
>
> Geoff.

I had no problem opening the files from gedit or kate. I don't use konqueror.

The files are size 0 because they reside in memory and not on disk.
/proc is a virutal filesystem.

James