From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264402AbTI2ShI (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:37:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264401AbTI2Sg6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:36:58 -0400 Received: from imr2.ericy.com ([198.24.6.3]:51953 "EHLO imr2.ericy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264267AbTI2Sf0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:35:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3F787C81.8060506@ericsson.ca> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:40:01 -0400 From: Jean-Guillaume User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Simple Procfs question: Triggering an "action" when opening a directory instead of a file (with seqfile.h)??? References: <3F786E73.6010306@ericsson.ca> <20030929180310.GO7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030929180310.GO7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: >On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Jean-Guillaume wrote: > > >>Hello everybody :) >> >> > > > >>I need some help on this one, I couldn't find anything on google or in >>the archives of the mailing list. Here it goes: >> >>I want to trigger an action when "opening" a directory of the procfs. >>This is easy for files, but how is it done for directories...??? >> >> > >With a separate filesystem. Don't do that on procfs, it's messy enough as >it is. > > lol, ok then :) I have indeed noticed some funny things with the procfs. Like, doing a "ls" on my tipc dir said the directory was empty, but I could do a "vi /proc/tipc/file" and see the content of file. Invisible file? :)