I’m no expert but I believe you’d need a kernel module to create the char device, then have your application talk to it somehow? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5970595/create-a-device-node-in-code On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli <danielhilst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- 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
