From: Igor Pirnovar <lists@...>
Date: 2012-10-29T05:12:31+09:00
Subject: Re: File.readable? and /proc

Jeff Moore wrote in post #1081712:

> It's the inconsistency with:
>
> root@nail:/projects/proc_fs# ls -al /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
> --w------- 1 root root 0 2012-10-28 08:24
> /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
>
> that I find mostly surprising.

Well, that's how Unix works. I have two objections:

(1) You should not be using superuser account for regular work!
(2) You have no business running irb in /proc filesystem!

If you do either of these things, you better not be surprised, ever!

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