Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:57 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> Folks,
> 	I humbly submit configfs.  With configfs, a configfs
> config_item is created via an explicit userspace operation: mkdir(2).
> It is destroyed via rmdir(2).  The attributes appear at mkdir(2) time,
> and can be read or modified via read(2) and write(2).  readdir(3)
> queries the list of items and/or attributes.
> 	The lifetime of the filesystem representation is completely
> driven by userspace.  The lifetime of the objects themselves are managed
> by a kref, but at rmdir(2) time they disappear from the filesystem.

does that mean you rmdir a non-empty directory ??


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