Re: General questions

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> 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.
         */

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Stephen Smalley, NSA
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