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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:30:25 +0200
From: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
To: llx@swissonline.ch
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Subject: Re: proc file system
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:02:18AM +0200, llx@swissonline.ch wrote:
> i've written a prog interface for my logger utility to make it easy
> to transport my logging information from kernel to userspace using
> shell commands. now i want to use tail -f /prog/<mylogfile>. what
> do i have to do for that to work. when using tail my loginfo gets
> read form my ringbuffer, but nothing gets printed in the terminal.

I think you actually want a character device instead of a /proc file.


Erik

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