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Re: procfs again
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:29:32PM +0530, atul wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please correct your computer's clock.
> hi
> recently read the procfs guide on kernel newbies..
> its wonderful..
Thank you.
> but there is one question that is troubling me..
> isn't there any way we can get the proc_dir_entry* to an existing file/dir
> in the procfs??
I don't see why this feature would be useful, but if you really insist
on it, you might want to have a look at how remove_proc_entry() in
fs/proc/generic.c works.
> n what if we use create_proc_entry() with name filed same as the name of an
> existing file in the procfs..??
Then you will end up with two proc entries with the same name. Maybe
I'll should supply a patch to test for it.
Erik
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