> Bad idea if running with root mounted over NFS for example.
>
> The fact that a complete running system does in some way depend
> on /proc beeing mounted is bad in itself too. This is mainly
> due to the fact that all the strongly kernel
> tangled userland utilities in linux are maintained separately
> from the kernel source tree, and are in most cases poorly written
> or maintained.
My RFC does NOT mean that everyone HAS to _mount_ or _use_ procfs, all I
want is that everyone _compiles_ procfs into ther kernel, as everyone is
doing right now anyway. [I bet you never even tried to compile a kernel
without procfs!]
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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