On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 14:29 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:52 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:11 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > > I think it was Joel. His point was that files in configfs was intended
> > > to be used as attr=value type of usage, and data worth of PAGE_SIZE is
> > > good enough for that kind of usage.
> >
> > Is there a real reason that we can't do this at the directory level?
> >
> > Instead of:
> >
> > $ cat /configfs/rg0/tasks
> > 1 2 3 4
> >
> > This:
> >
> > $ ls /configfs/rg0/tasks/
> > 1 2 3 4
> >
>
> It might solve the problem in hand. But, as a user, if i see a file i
> would expect some data in that file. There is no relevant data to be
> displayed here.
IMHO There's nothing wrong with having empty files.
If it really disturbs you that much perhaps we could make the file named
<pid> a symlink to /proc/<pid>.
> > It might even make some semantic sense for moving tasks between resource
> > groups to use sys_rename().
> >
> > -- Dave
Rename does have some significant advantages. It would show up via
inotify for instance.
Cheers,
-Matt Helsley
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