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Re: Buffering large reads from procfs

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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:27:37PM -0400, Eddie Pettis wrote:
> I have a module that stores a lot of information within the kernel
> (>100 kB).  To extract the data from this module, I have created a
> file within /proc that I read from user space.  However, since I have
> a lot of data, I need to generate the output in pieces and buffer the
> data for user space.
> 
> Does anybody know of a good example that uses /proc or /sys and
> buffers data back to user space?

You shouldn't abuse /proc or /sys for that, use relayfs. See
Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt .


Erik

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