Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 1997 18:44:50 +0200 | From | Sander van Malssen <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.43 curious pipe-entries in / (root) |
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On Friday, 27 June 1997 at 12:15:35 +0200, Dieter Nuetzel wrote: > Erik B. Andersen wrote: > > > > Why not stick them in /proc? That is where everything else like > > this goes. > > > Or just /tmp or something like /tmp/pipes ...
What if /proc isn't yet mounted? What if /tmp is a symlink to an as yet unmounted partition? Bound to break some people's rc scripts...
The proc problem could be solved by having the kernel mount it automatically straight after mounting /, after a sys_mkdir() if necessary, but that would mean that procfs can no longer be optional. People running dedicated servers with not much RAM or security worries won't be happy.
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