Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:35:32 +0200 | From | Buddy Lucas <> | Subject | Re: /proc/[number] special entries |
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Hi Matt,
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:31:24 +1000, Matthew Hindle <luminary@penguinmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering if anybody could help me with a hint or two... > > I'm trying to add a sub-directory to each /proc/[number] directory > (where [number] is a process id). I think that I need to get a > proc_dir_entry* so that I can call: > > proc_mkdir("mysubdir", (struct proc_dir_entry *) parent); > > However, I can't work out how to get a reference to the proc_dir_entry* > I need. I can find the other entries in the proc directory (such as bus, > cpuinfo. misc, net...) by doing something like this: > > struct proc_dir_entry * dp; > dp = &proc_root; > dp = dp->subdir; > while (dp != NULL) { > printk("er... found: %s\n",dp->name); > dp = dp->next; > } > > However, the only entries that don't show up are the [number] entries. > Assistance please!
The PID entries in /proc are special cases: see proc_root_readdir(). I'm guessing though that you'll want to take a look at the struct pid_entry stuff in fs/proc/base.c, it's all there.
Cheers, Buddy
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