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From: ravi <ravi.nanjundappa@ap.sony.com>
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what is the use of PFS_PROCDEP in the following statement ?

 dir = pfs_create_dir(root, "pid",
            procfs_attr, NULL, PFS_PROCDEP);


And there is no entry under /proc with the name "pid" .

Why is it so ?


Regards,

N Ravi