Re: Show application performance/errors from pseudo file

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Yichao Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli <[email protected]>
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>> I'm writing a new application and would be nice to have a pseudo file
>> showing its status, just the way that procfs does with kernel.
>> I'm looking for sugestions, I want to `cat' files contents and have
>> something similar to /proc/meminfo
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>> First I think using named pipes, but, AFAIK, pipes would retain data
>> writed until someone read it, what I thought is a kind of read
>> hook that only show data when asked for. Here are a few requisites,
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>> - Don't retain data
>> - Don't generate disk I/O
>> - Vanish when application stops
>> - Work with a simple cat or something similar..
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> You should have a look at fuse[1].
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> [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
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>> With that in mind I think about using unix domain sockets.. it seems to
>> fit all requisites, for
>> the fourth requisite I could use netcat, that is almost cat,
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>> Cheers
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