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On Wednesday 28 July 2004 14:06, ravi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I've already told u in the previous mail , I've extended the
> liprocfs by creating my own proc entries (which are not related to
> any process ) . And I'm storing some data in the sb ( which is a
> pointer to sbuf structure ) using my handler function for these
> entries . I want to make this data to be accessed from the gcov tool
> when I run the gcov command from the terminal .
>
> Please tell me how this can be done ?

Is this in the freebsd /proc or the linux /usr/compat/linux/proc? I 
don't want the freebsd /proc to grow all that ugly clutter that you can 
find there on linux - use sysctl instead.