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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:23:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Zarzycki <dave@thor.sbay.org>
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cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: taskfs and kernfs
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I got bored this evening and decided to learn more about the Linux kernel
by splitting out procfs into two separate file systems:

taskfs which contains /proc/self and /proc/[1-9]*
kernfs which contains everything else that procfs provides.

You can get the quick hack from here (this patch is against 2.4.0-test10):

http://thor.sbay.org/~dave/taskfs_and_kernfs.diff.gz

I've tested the two file systems on the user-mode-linux kernel. :-)
They both seem to work as expected, even when /proc is mounted.

Alexander Viro, is this kernfs at all useful as a starting point for your
kernfs goals?

davez

-- 
Dave Zarzycki
http://thor.sbay.org/~dave/



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