> > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading > > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would > > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes > > externally using a different kind of IPC to communicate with > > the target. Am I dreaming? Would this be completely impossible > > to implement using /proc/n/note ? > > If proc n needs to know about this design, then could > you just always direct the notes to the "thief?" Or > if the thief were a little file server, could you bind > the file he listens to on top of /proc/n/note?
the kernel would not notice this binding. - erik
