Re: How to put something in /proc

From: Davide Libenzi (dlibenzi@maticad.it)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 07:27:06 EST


On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > > I need to create a "file" in /proc to monitor some kernel
> > > variables from user space. How can I do ? / Where can I
> > > get docs ? And how can I do time measurements from
> > > inside the kernel ?
> >
> > Search for proc_register() inside the kernel sources.
>
> _Don't_
>
> proc_register() is dead. Use create_proc_read_entry() instead.
>
> Folks, support of the static procfs entries is gone and it will not be
> back. Any initializer for struct proc_dir_entry is a LARTable offense. So
> is kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry),...) and its ilk. You do it - you
> suffer.

OK, last time i've worked with proc stuff was two years ago, I've to update but:

# find /usr/src/linux -name '*.c' -exec grep proc_register \{} \; | wc -l
119

I'm not alone :-)

- Davide

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