<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>Chapter 2. The proc filesystem</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API" /><link rel="prev" href="re132.html" title="close_bdev_exclusive" /><link rel="next" href="re133.html" title="register_sysctl_paths" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. The proc filesystem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re132.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re133.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 2. The proc filesystem"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="proc"></a>Chapter 2. The proc filesystem</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="ch02.html#sysctl_interface">sysctl interface</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="ch02s02.html">proc filesystem interface</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" title="sysctl interface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="sysctl_interface"></a>sysctl interface</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re133.html"><span>register_sysctl_paths</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — register a sysctl table hierarchy </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re134.html"><span>register_sysctl_table</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — register a sysctl table hierarchy </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re135.html"><span>unregister_sysctl_table</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — unregister a sysctl table hierarchy </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re136.html"><span>proc_dostring</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a string sysctl </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re137.html"><span>proc_dointvec</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of integers </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re138.html"><span>proc_dointvec_minmax</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of integers with min/max values </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re139.html"><span>proc_doulongvec_minmax</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of long integers with min/max values </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re140.html"><span>proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of millisecond values with min/max values </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re141.html"><span>proc_dointvec_jiffies</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of integers as seconds </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re142.html"><span>proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of integers as 1/USER_HZ seconds </span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re143.html"><span>proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — read a vector of integers as 1 milliseconds </span></dt></dl></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re132.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re133.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span>close_bdev_exclusive</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span>register_sysctl_paths</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>