Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:40:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.43 curious pipe-entries in / (root) |
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On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Sander van Malssen wrote:
> 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.
[SNIPPED] Why don't you put those ugly pipes in /dev ? "/dev" will always exist and already has "log" (socket), "initctl" (named pipe), "printer" (named pipe), and other non-devices thingies in it.
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