NAME

     pseudofs — pseudo file system construction kit

SYNOPSIS

     #include <fs/pseudofs/pseudofs.h>

DESCRIPTION

     The pseudofs module offers an abstract API for pseudo-file systems such as procfs(5) and
     linprocfs(5).  It takes care of all the hairy bits like interfacing with the VFS system,
     enforcing access control, keeping track of file numbers, and cloning files and directories
     that are process-specific.  The consumer module, i.e., the module that implements the actual
     guts of the file system, needs only provide the directory structure (represented by a
     collection of structures declared and initialized by macros provided by pseudofs) and
     callbacks that report file attributes or write the actual file contents into sbufs.

SEE ALSO

     linprocfs(5), linsysfs(5), procfs(5), sbuf(9), vnode(9)

HISTORY

     The pseudofs module appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

     The pseudofs module and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav
     <des@FreeBSD.org>.