Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:30:25 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | 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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