From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Root emacs weirdness Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 23:55:17 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379822418 20305 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2013 04:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 04:00:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 22 06:00:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VNaqF-0005C2-My for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 06:00:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNaqF-0000Vr-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:00:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="2999"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tQ622mU57AXvsEU8vZP5R" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BppPbbbRSo+iIgGiHxpxW2UUJi0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201235 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93504 Archived-At: In article , Bob Proulx wrote: > notbob wrote: > > While learning about linux gutz, I used emacs dired by root to edit > > /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict file from a 1 to a 0. > > Your misunderstanding starts with missing that the entire /proc is not > a real filesystem. It is a fake filesystem. It is meant as a way to > present kernel data to the user. It is not intended to hold random > files. When you try to create backups in that directory the backup of > the file can't exist there. Perhaps backups should be inhibited by default for /proc. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***