proc - cpuinfo

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 10:04 pm, Lokeey wrote:
> anyone know if you edit /proc/cpuinfo if it will do anything or is this
> just a file that is read by the system and if you edit it nothing happens?

It's not a real file, and you can't edit it.

If you want to edit it for some reason, you can take a copy, and edit that as 
a text file, though you can't affect the real pseudo file in any way.

man proc for more details.
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D. Michael McIntyre