From: Jean-Guillaume <jean-guillaume.paradis@ericsson.ca>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple Procfs question: Triggering an "action" when opening a directory instead of a file (with seqfile.h)???
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:40:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F787C81.8060506@ericsson.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030929180310.GO7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Jean-Guillaume wrote:
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>>Hello everybody :)
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>>I need some help on this one, I couldn't find anything on google or in
>>the archives of the mailing list. Here it goes:
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>>I want to trigger an action when "opening" a directory of the procfs.
>>This is easy for files, but how is it done for directories...???
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>With a separate filesystem. Don't do that on procfs, it's messy enough as
>it is.
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lol, ok then :)
I have indeed noticed some funny things with the procfs. Like, doing a
"ls" on my tipc dir said the directory was empty, but I could do a "vi
/proc/tipc/file" and see the content of file. Invisible file? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-29 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 17:40 Simple Procfs question: Triggering an "action" when opening a directory instead of a file (with seqfile.h)??? Jean-Guillaume
2003-09-29 18:03 ` viro
2003-09-29 18:40 ` Jean-Guillaume [this message]
2003-10-09 15:27 ` ProcFs: FORCING remove_proc_entry even if the directory is used (busy) ?? Jean-Guillaume
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