Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:36:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Get rid of CONFIG_PROC_FS, was Re: "CONFIG_PROCFS" problem in 2.3.18ac8 |
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> Bad idea if running with root mounted over NFS for example. > > The fact that a complete running system does in some way depend > on /proc beeing mounted is bad in itself too. This is mainly > due to the fact that all the strongly kernel > tangled userland utilities in linux are maintained separately > from the kernel source tree, and are in most cases poorly written > or maintained.
My RFC does NOT mean that everyone HAS to _mount_ or _use_ procfs, all I want is that everyone _compiles_ procfs into ther kernel, as everyone is doing right now anyway. [I bet you never even tried to compile a kernel without procfs!]
Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
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