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Subject:	Re: [PATCH] _unlink() & rmdir() on /proc/*
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> P.S. I don't expect this patches to be applied because they may look
> like ugly hacks or something like that... I didn't find any more
> appropriate way to fix this though without greater modifications to
> the code. I see several ways of fixing this in a much better way:
>
> 1. unlink () and rmdir () should be made virtual functions in
> fhandler_base.
Chris, what are yout thoughts on this? At the moment, not enough file I/O
functions have been moved to fhandler_base to implement a read/write pseudo
filesystem using fhandler_virtual. This was one of the main reasons that
/proc/registry is read-only.

Chris



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