can't read /proc/cpuinfo

[Timothy C Prince]

with gfortran 4.3 20070615, on x86-64 linux
open(11,file='/proc/cpuinfo',action='READ',iostat=ios)

apparently succeeds (ios == 0)

but then

read(11,'(a)',iostat=ios)txtline

immediately gives ios == -1

Did I miss something obvious?

I suppose it is possible to do
system("cat /proc/cpuinfo > txtfile")
and open that file, similar to what I do to capture uname data, but I preferred the scheme of reading directly, as ifort can do.
Tim Prince