Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:38:15 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) | From | Chris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] device file support for /proc filesystem |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > Nothing. Kernels from 2.3.27 are not supported yet. The new /proc code is > > not able to create devices inside /proc directory :-(( > > > > It would be good to include the following patch (or similar) into kernel. > > Please, let me know, if someone will do it, because I'm not checking 2.3 > > kernel changes every day. > > Patch is more or less OK, except that it should really use > init_special_inode() (you forgot to set inode->i_op). I have an equivalent > queued, it's waiting for Linus coming back.
With this patch applied to my stock 2.3.28, i get this in my root directory:
unitee:~# ls -l /proc ?-------w- 16 root root 3223071008 Nov 17 12:36 /proc
Any idea why?
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