Resend as plain text. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:50 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.. > > > You should have a look at fuse[1]. > > [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ > >> >> >> 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
