PSEUDOFS(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual PSEUDOFS(9)NAMEpseudofs — 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-spe‐
cific. The consumer module, i.e., the module that implements the actual
guts of the file system, needs only provide the directory structure (rep‐
resented 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 ALSOlinprocfs(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
Smørgrav ⟨des@FreeBSD.org⟩.
BSD April 20, 2007 BSD