That depends on what you expect, doesn't it? At any rate, you can easily do something like echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/foo This has the added bonus that you can

That depends on what you expect, doesn't it? At any rate, you can easily do something like echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/foo This has the added bonus that you can replace "echo 1" with a complex script that may not be safe to run as root.