Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:17:59 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:57 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > Folks, > I humbly submit configfs. With configfs, a configfs > config_item is created via an explicit userspace operation: mkdir(2). > It is destroyed via rmdir(2). The attributes appear at mkdir(2) time, > and can be read or modified via read(2) and write(2). readdir(3) > queries the list of items and/or attributes. > The lifetime of the filesystem representation is completely > driven by userspace. The lifetime of the objects themselves are managed > by a kref, but at rmdir(2) time they disappear from the filesystem.
does that mean you rmdir a non-empty directory ??
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