Re: Simple Procfs question: Triggering an "action" when opening adirectory instead of a file (with seqfile.h)???

[Jean-Guillaume]

viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Jean-Guillaume wrote:
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> > Hello everybody :)
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> > I need some help on this one, I couldn't find anything on google or in 
> > the archives of the mailing list. Here it goes:
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> > I want to trigger an action when "opening" a directory of the procfs. 
> > This is easy for files, but how is it done for directories...???
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> With a separate filesystem.  Don't do that on procfs, it's messy enough as
> it is.
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lol, ok then :)

I have indeed noticed some funny things with the procfs. Like, doing a 
"ls" on my tipc dir  said the directory was empty, but I could do a "vi 
/proc/tipc/file" and see the content of file. Invisible file? :)


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