Config option for /proc as well as /dev/pts?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Oct 27 07:55:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:20:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Right now we have a config option that says whether or not to use /dev/pts.  
> In effect, the config option to add mtab support to mount is another way of 
> saying "we haven't got /proc".
> <snip>
> Should we have a big "there is no spoon" config option for /proc, and then go 
> through those and either #ifdef out chunks or make the applet have a config 
> dependency on !CONFIG_NO_PROC?

a bunch of those utils prob wouldnt work at all if /proc is unavailable ...
-mike



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