Re: filemon

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From: void <void_at_f-m.fm>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:34:51 UTC

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 03:01:22PM +0000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

>filemon is not a device, it's an option.  So you can't have "device
>filemon" in your kernel config file.

man 4 filemon has the following

NAME
      filemon – the filemon device

[...]

DESCRIPTION
      The filemon device allows a process to collect file operations data of
      its children.  The device /dev/filemon responds to two ioctl(2) calls.

[...]

Are you sure it's not a device? The man page suggests otherwise.

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