Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:41:34 +0200 | From | Jan Hudec <> | 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.
Could you please explain why? I can't see the advantage (read and write are fileops; you can have them exactly the same for proc file and device).
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