RE: Deleting files from /proc ?

Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:10:35 +0100


> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dennis Hou wrote:
> As it is, once you have deleted something link /proc/net/route, there
> appears to be no way to cause the dentry to be kfree()d
> (problem) and also
> no way to recreate the file (no such a problem). Unless I'm missing
> something, of course
> OTOH, its a pretty stupid thing to do in the first place, so maybe you
> deserve all you get...

If you have several admins on a box and one of them thinks it's a good
idea to delete them, and the others don't it's an annoyance.
What I found odd was some files were deletable, where others were not.

d.

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