Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:42:01 +0200 (METDST) | From | Richard Guenther <> | Subject | Re: Sysctl updates for 2.1.55 |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Richard Guenther wrote:
> 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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