> filenames refer to files! And lo, that's what we have here. A > filesystem! The files are created by the kernel and are read and > unlinked by userspace. > > So why not implement this whole thing as a proper filesystem? ... > Wait. It *is* a filesystem. ... > So why can't I remove these "records" with rm? Because I tried to use /sys for this and couldn't find a way to get notified about "unlink". Alan Cox called this bit "daft" in v1 (and I agreed with him). Peter Anvin gave me some pointers on how easy this would be to do as a real filesystem ... so v3 will be out in a little while with this insanity removed. I'll roll in fixes to address your other comments too. Thanks for the review. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
