Adam Thornton wrote: > I don't know if this would be considered an abuse of sysfs, but, > presuming that you'd have something like > > /sys/devices/diagnose > > Then for this you could just > > cat /sys/devices/diagnose/8/status > > In the same directory, you could have buffer_size, command, and so > forth. That would be limited to a single user as far as I can see. What if script A wants to set buffer size to 1024 then execute its favorite command while script B wants to set buffer size to 4096 then execute its command? This is racy! --
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