> On 15 Sep 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > By author: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
> > >
> > > On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Christopher Horn wrote:
> > >
> > > > If my attempt to reorganize things is not acceptable, I'll submit a
> > > > stripped down version of the patch. I did not migrate binfmt_misc to
> > > > /proc/sys/bin as it is actively maintained.
> > > I'll move the binfmt_misc dir, if this gets included to 2.1.55.
> > >
> >
> > Suggestion: why not instead of using "echo -1 > foo" as the delete
> > operation, handle unlink()?
> Yes - I thought about this. But as no file (as for now) in proc is
> deletable it could confuse users? At least I will have to drop the
> use of the simple generic proc routines and do my own inode/file-op-table.
> Well, when the VFS has moved to dentries and procfs has been overhauled ...
> maybe.
Or even activate/deactivate entries unsing chmod? That way we could
support entries for some groups only... But for that, proc has to be
extended... :(
I always like discussions about user-interfaces ;-)
Richard.
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