Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 11:18:26 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And how many scripts do you already run on reboot?
>
> In short, what's wrong with running one more script on reboot and
> shutdown, if it means that the filesystem magically becomes much less
> involved.
>
> Permissions can (and obviously in my opinion, should) be handled by a
> user-space agent. The kernel uses some default permissions in the absense
> of any other knowledge, but this is not all that dis-similar from what
> /proc does in the end.
>

Careful here... how much data do you lose from an unclean shutdown?

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