On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:38:59PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Not right now. I haven't discovered a way to add an entry to /proc > without patching the kernel, and I don't want to do that. There is a > new `sysfs' in 2.6 that seems to allow similar kinds of dynamic > control. I haven't figured out how to use that yet.
patching is not necessary. look at /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h there are the functions for creating a proc entry. should be some 10 lines of code including handling the string to int conversion. > > The load time access is not so bad. You can rmmod and then reload the > LSM if you want to change its parameters. I've been doing that a lot > for testing. This has no effect on processes that are already > running. thats why i dont consider it necessary. what do you need the proc entry for fernando ? the question is, if we want to backport the functionality to 2.4... then we would need the proc entry in the 2.6 module also for consistency. -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
