From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3518 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2005 14:59:14 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Aug 2005 14:59:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 677 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2005 14:59:08 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Aug 2005 14:59:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 24272 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2005 14:59:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9318 Received: (qmail 24263 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2005 14:59:01 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Aug 2005 14:59:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 99452 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2005 14:59:01 -0000 Received: from dan.emsphone.com (199.67.51.101) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Aug 2005 14:58:56 -0000 Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j7FEwsq7071426 for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:58:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:58:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zsh Users Subject: Re: setopt noclobber in /proc-filesystem Message-ID: <20050815145854.GB46146@dan.emsphone.com> References: <2005-08-15T13-09-25@devnull.michael-prokop.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2005-08-15T13-09-25@devnull.michael-prokop.at> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 In the last episode (Aug 15), Michael Prokop said: > % setopt noclobber > % echo foo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug > zsh: file exists: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug > > Is there any chance to use option 'noclobber' but allow writing to > /proc-filesystem anyway? I do know that there exists 'setopt > clobber' ;-) and "echo ... >| /proc/..." as well but other users > might not know this. > > I'd like to ship zsh on my live-cd-system with 'setopt noclobber' > enabled but would like to avoid that users think the behaviour in > /proc-fs is a bug. Any ideas? sysctl -w kernel.hotplug=foo -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com