J. Roeleveld wrote: >> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, >> why not just using the filesystem ? > > Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you > don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem. > And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the > memory I have.
Why not simply using tmpfs ? Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, and network agnostic. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
