Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:35:07 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anything similar to linux /proc stuff? Message-ID: <3D5016DB.8090302@math.missouri.edu> References: <20020806182037.63580.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com>
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Ed Yu wrote: > Hi, I'm doing a port of a Linux module I wrote so that > I can use it on my FreeBSD system. However, after some > digging, I found the FreeBSD /proc is vastly different > from Linux. Despite the overuse of /proc in Linux, it > is useful still to have something like that in my > module. Basically, I need some kind of pseudo > filesystem to store pseudo files that can report > informations of the module I write. I need to be able > to echo into the files, and cat it out (yes like fifo) > and read information such as the id of the running > process that uses the module, etc. > Is there facility like that in FreeBSD? > > Thank you, > ed > Would man linprocfs be of any use to you? This is something that the editors/staroffice52 port needs. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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