I'm writing a new application and would be nice to have a pseudo file showing its status, just the way that procfs does with kernel. I'm looking for sugestions, I want to `cat' files contents and have something similar to /proc/meminfo First I think using named pipes, but, AFAIK, pipes would retain data writed until someone read it, what I thought is a kind of read hook that only show data when asked for. Here are a few requisites, - Don't retain data - Don't generate disk I/O - Vanish when application stops - Work with a simple cat or something similar.. With that in mind I think about using unix domain sockets.. it seems to fit all requisites, for the fourth requisite I could use netcat, that is almost cat, Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
