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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:40:01 -0400
From: Jean-Guillaume <jean-guillaume.paradis@ericsson.ca>
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Subject: Re: Simple Procfs question: Triggering an "action" when opening a
 directory instead of a file (with seqfile.h)???
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viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk 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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