Re: [PATCH] towards a /proc-less user space

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@xmission.com)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 17:21:20 EST


On Wed Mar 08, 2000 at 10:43:50PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:14:26PM +0100, Guest section DW wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:38:32AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> >
> > > ... minimalist replacements for most of the utilities
> > >
> > > This patch provides 3 device drivers: devps, devmtab, and devmodules.
> >
> > For a minimal system devmtab is not necessary.
>
> And devmodules is not necessary even on a normal system. lsmod provides the
> same info and is not using proc at all.
>

Umm...

[andersen@slag andersen]$ strace lsmod 2>&1 | grep proc
open("/proc/modules", O_RDONLY) = 3
[andersen@slag andersen]$ dlocate lsmod | grep bin
modutils: /sbin/lsmod

 -Erik

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