linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/lib/api/fs: Add procfs int read/write helpers

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Message-ID: <20170207153438.GJ24988@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:34:38 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/lib/api/fs: Add procfs int read/write helpers

Em Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:00:45PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > And forget that under the hood this is in something called "procfs".
 
> ... unless one day you want to set a file in /proc which is not under
> the sysctl hierarchy :-)

In that case you use procfs__read_int(), no problem. 
 
> I mean, I don't care what I do - you're the maintainer - I'm just giving
> you 2 cents :-)

:-)

- Arnaldo