Re: [fuse-devel] Can I use FUSE to provide a file in /proc

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

David Goodenough <dav...@li...> writes:

> I have some code which currently produces a status file periodically
> - whether anyone wants it or not.  And it occured to me that this
> is rather like /proc or /sys files in the Linux kernel, and that it
> would be great if I could create a FUSE file, and allow others to open
> it for read and given them the status when they want it.  Obviously
> if it were user code it probably should not go in /proc, but I would
> only want to create a single "file", not a whole directory (although
> that would not be end of the world).
>
> Can I do this with FUSE.  If so does anyone know of any good examples
> or cookbooks?

To create just a single file examples/hello.c in the fuse source tree
would be a good starting point.

Thanks,
Miklos