Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 01:53:31 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, procps-list@redhat.com,
       kernel@theoesters.com, rml@tech9.net, miquels@cistron-office.nl,
       xose@wanadoo.es, tab@tuxfamily.org
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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