Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2003 01:53:31 -0300 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: [announce] procps 2.0.13 with NPTL enhancements |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > Disabling the proc filesystem is simple by unchecking one item in the > kernel config menu and different from taking out "a chunk of libc" it's > more or less supported.
It's worse: if a system is brought up for reduced operation, e.g. with init=/bin/sh for repair work, it is not uncommon for /proc to be absent.
Since it is not immediately obvious for a user whether a given program depends on /proc or not, just crashing in such a situation is clearly a case poor user interface design.
- Werner
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