Re: [RFC][PATCH] jobfs - new virtual filesystem for job kernel/user

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>>I maintain my position that this belongs in /proc.
>This is a question I try to find an answer. If the community agrees
>the /proc is the right place for it, I would be very happy to move it
>to /proc and implement it with procfs.
>>>Why not have a structure something like:
>>>/proc/<pid>/job -> ../jobs/<jid>
>But adding /proc/<pid>/job needs to patch fs/proc/base.c, we can not
>do that in a module. Of course if job gets accepted, this won't be a problem.

That depends on whether the community (read: the standard user) needs it. Maybe
we could make some procfs functions exported and let jobfs be dependent on
procfs (let jobfs using proc_create_dir() for example).

Jan Engelhardt
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