Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:27:23 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] implement in-kernel keys & keyring management |
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:23:20AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > I think that if the /proc interface was moved over to sysfs (which is > > where it should be), a number of these syscalls would go away. > > Well, I could move these two files into /sysfs. But just doing that wouldn't > get rid of any of the system calls. To move these files into sysfs, should I > create a "keys" subsystem?
Yes. But then you would have to split the info in these files up into many different files, as it's "one value per file" for sysfs files :)
> Can you elaborate as to what you envision? I wonder if you'd thinking that I > should make every key a kobject and fan-out them out in a directory in sysfs > somewhere. I really don't want to do that, though... kobject seems to add > quite a large overhead that I'd rather avoid (a directory in sysfs for > instance).
James has gone into the detail of a filesystem type interface for this code much better than I can envision.
thanks,
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