PSEUDOFS(9) FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual PSEUDOFS(9)
NAME
pseudofs - pseudo file system construction kit
SYNOPSIS
#include <fs/pseudofs/pseudofs.h>
DESCRIPTION
The pseudofs 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
linprocfs(5), linsysfs(5), procfs(5), sbuf(9), vnode(9)
HISTORY
The pseudofs module appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS
The pseudofs module and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling
Smorgrav <
[email protected]>.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 April 20, 2007 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8