While on the subject, perhaps someone could explain this: I thought if you cat a file it merely displays the contents on screen. What I don't understand is that if I cat my translation file to /proc/empeg_ir then when I cat /proc/empeg_ir I would expect it to only display the contents of this file which should be a replica of the original file as I am replacing the file and not appending to it. However, a cat /proc/empeg_ir reveals extra header information. Where does this come from?

Somebody else will probably be able to provide details, but raughly speaking /proc filesystem is magical: files there are not 'real', but serve as interface to various drivers, 'window' into various kernel tables etc. So, each file has its own particular behaviour and meaning, both when written to and read from.


Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
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