Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:09:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> mount anything at all, easy change of root: just umount //root and mount > other thing there. And POSIX agrees that //root or //proc CAN be special > so all is correct. So just kernel changes are needed. Right ? Not quite:
Millions of apps rely on // working.
> it's better to add kernel warning NOW. Perhaps configurable so it can be > disabled (not in compile time, but in run-time). This way at least EACH AND > EVERY Linux vendor will be aware about problem. What do you think ?
If Linus made // special in the kernel we'd have to make it unspecial again in glibc 8(. It also breaks the flexibility of mounting we have now. Why is it //ipc - what does //ipc have to do with ipc in other languages, why can't I mount it where I want it ?
We have a nice unix VFS abstraction. Not using it is just ugly. Things like mounting /ipc can be handled in startup space quite easily.
Alan
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