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Subject: Re: Procfs open hook bug.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Enderborg <pme@hyglo.com>
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On Maw, 2003-07-01 at 11:55, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> And when loading this module. The procfs gets broken. I get EINVAL for 
> open on
> /proc/meminfo and all other procfs info. Why? Should procfs inodes don't 
> have full
> filesematics? And it don't help to unload the module.

If you look at other file systems you'll see they swap the file
operations pointer