Re: Show application performance/errors from pseudo file

On 10/17/2014 03:59 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote:
> On 10/16/2014 05:31 PM, Yichao Yu wrote:
>> Resend as plain text.
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>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Yichao Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Hilst Selli <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> - Don't retain data
>>>> - Don't generate disk I/O
>>>> - Vanish when application stops
>>>> - Work with a simple cat or something similar..
>>>
>>>
>>> You should have a look at fuse[1].
>>>
>>> [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
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>
> Seems god, a little overkill for so simple stuff but adds nice features, I'm taking
> a look on further options..
>
> Cheers
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