If it ain't broke, don't fix it. My 1/50th of a dollar.
Joe
On Jan 7, 1:15am, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > - the d_count handling can not be done in the usual way, because (as we
> > want to be able to umount/mount proc several times and of cause keep
> > the proc-tree) the mount/umount syscalls and followups have ugly (dont
> > rembember all) superblock->d_root handling. Ah yes, and of cause
> > dentry->d_sb needs to change automagically, because proc has no real
> > device id.... (partial fixes exist).
>
> You'd also want a devfs to be mounted multiple times with different
> contents. Many systems use chrooted environments with subsets of /dev
> in them, with the appropriate permissions and so on. This needs to be
> possible.
>
> J
>-- End of excerpt from Jeremy Fitzhardinge