You're absolutely right! a "cat /proc/curproc/status" works just fine!  I
was using "more" but getting no output.  I wonder if there's any
difference between more and cat in this aspect?  At any rate, thanks.

Sincerely
Jose

On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:

> > Why is it that the files ctl, mem, note, notepg and status (in particular)
> > have 0 length?  The man page for mount_procfs says that the file status
> > should contain a line with the process information.  Is there a "right"
> > way of accessing this file that I'm ignoring?  Thanks.
> 
> Did you actually try a "cat /proc/curproc/status"?  The length of the status
> line is varying, so the length given by the ls command would be misleading
> anyway, and the implementor of the procfs filesystem choose to return a zero
> length in the stat call. But reading the file should give you the information
> anyway.  (Can't test is myself, because my implementation of procfs is quite
> a bit different).
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Wolfgang
> --
> ws@TooLs.DE     (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) 	+49-228-985800
> 

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