Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.1.43 curious pipe-entries in / (root) | Date | 27 Jun 1997 20:47:58 GMT |
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Followup to: <19970627184450.45939@kozmix.ow.nl> By author: Sander van Malssen <svm@kozmix.ow.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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. >
The thing is, though, that those pipes only really get used if you're using /proc anyway, so I don't know if that is a problem. Otherwise, it can be made its own virtual filesystem.
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