"Unable to open file", when the program tries to open file in /proc
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Hi, I try to read file /proc/'pid'/status, using c program. The code is as follows, and even I use sudo to run it, the prompt still keeps throwing "Unable to open file". Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to fix this. thanks
Richard
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int main (int argc, char* argv[]) {
string line;
char* fileLoc;
if(argc != 2)
{
cout << "a.out file_path" << endl;
fileLoc = "/proc/net/dev";
} else {
sprintf(fileLoc, "/proc/%d/status", atoi(argv[1]));
}
cout<< fileLoc << endl;
ifstream myfile (fileLoc);
if (myfile.is_open())
{
while (! myfile.eof() )
{
getline (myfile,line);
cout << line << endl;
}
myfile.close();
}
else cout << "Unable to open file";
return 0;
}
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