Re: is a user space process capable of generating a /proc filesystem entry?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
4 Nov 1997 16:48:53 +0100

linux kernel account <linker@nightshade.z.ml.org> writes:
>
> You create a named pipe in the proc directory: /proc/whatever.
> You start a daemon on the pipe.. The daemon writes "hello proc" into the
> pipe.. Proc says "hello daemon".. Magicly, /proc/whatever becomes a
> directory.. all transactions in this directory are forwarded to the

Userfs. It already exists, and is way more stable than a named pipe (what
happens if two processes read from the named pipe at the same time, hmmm?).

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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH