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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:29:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar  4 10:12, Jeff Fulmer wrote:
>> I'd like to access and write to the /proc file system from a java program.
>> Can somebody steer me in the right direction? I'm starting to feel that
>> I've exhausted my search options...
>
>/proc is not writable on Cygwin.

And, if the java program doesn't use the cygwin DLL the /proc filesystem
isn't even accessible.

cgf

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