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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:46:01 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111020359540.12621-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>,
Alexander Viro  <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 05:42:36 -0500
>> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Is this designed to replace sysctl?
>> 
>> Well, I'd suggest replacing *all* the non-process stuff in /proc.  Yes.
>
>Aha.  Like, say it, /proc/kcore.  Or /proc/mounts, yodda, yodda.

Well in 2.5 union mounts are going to go in right? Then you could
have a compatibility "proc-compat" filesystem that reads data from
/kernel and supplies it in backwards compatible formats such as
/proc/mounts, that you union-mount over /proc

And in 2.7, rm -rf linux/fs/proc-compat

Mike.
-- 
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 and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.

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