NAME
pseudofs —
pseudo file system construction
kit
SYNOPSIS
#include
<fs/pseudofs/pseudofs.h>
DESCRIPTION
Thepseudofs module offers an abstract API for
pseudo-file systems such as
procfs(5) and
linprocfs(5). It takes care of all the hairy bits like interfacing with
the VFS system, enforcing access control, keeping track of file numbers, and
cloning files and directories that are process-specific. The consumer module,
i.e., the module that implements the actual guts of the file system, needs
only provide the directory structure (represented by a collection of
structures declared and initialized by macros provided by
pseudofs) and callbacks that report file attributes or
write the actual file contents into sbufs.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The pseudofs module appeared in
FreeBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS
The pseudofs module and this manual page
were written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav
<des@FreeBSD.org>.