On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:41:28PM -0500, Daniel Colascione wrote: > There should be a general-purpose way for /proc file readers to tell > the kernel which bits of information interest them on a particular read > syscall sequence or particular open(2) or something. This opens a pandora box full of ioctls. /proc supports ioctls on files which aren't /proc/$PID and /proc/sys/* though. So people made a mess with allegedly easy text files and now they continue to make even more mess adding ioctls on top.
