Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:49:38 +0100
From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux kernel without file system
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:57:55AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > Actually, I was thinking about reducing the footprint of my kernel by
> > removing all the fs-related system calls, so the problem is not where
> > the file-system is, but how to access (serial) devices without giving their
> > "/dev/..." name.
> 
> That's fighting the UNIX design, in "which everything is a file."  You
> can remove all of the disk-based filesystems, but if you try to remove
> open, close, read or write there'll be almost nothing that you can
> usefully do.

Of course, I need read, write and ioctl and socket and friends but I do not
need open, creat, link, rename etc.

Philippe
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