> Why not just add these things to /proc? As we have to do permission checking
> for /proc anyway it makes sense to me to have it all in the one place.
>
> Does Linus object to adding new things to /proc/pid directories?
That would require patching the procfs code. And it doesn't seem to be
favored by the maintainer. Quoting from the code
(fs/proc/base.c:proc_base_lookup):
/*
* Yes, it does not scale. And it should not. Don't add
* new entries into /proc/<pid>/ without very good reasons.
*/
--
Stephen Smalley, NSA
sds@epoch.ncsc.mil
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