Re: How Can I develop a process monitor?

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 14:47:05 EDT

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    On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-1] Abel Muņoz Alcaraz wrote:

    > Hi everybody,
    >
    > I want to develop a process monitor (like TOP) in a kernel module.
    > I think I must get the '/proc' superblock and replace the
    > inode_operations->mkdir,rmdir,create and open.

            None of these exist.

    > Is this correct?

            No.

    > Can I get the /proc superbloc with 'struct super_block * get_super(kdev_t
    > dev' function?

            No (for obvious reason: what device number would you use?)

    It might help if you would
            * describe what do you want to do
            * tell which kernel branch you are dealing with

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