Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 1998 01:15:47 +1100 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev |
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Richard Guenther wrote: > - the d_count handling can not be done in the usual way, because (as we > want to be able to umount/mount proc several times and of cause keep > the proc-tree) the mount/umount syscalls and followups have ugly (dont > rembember all) superblock->d_root handling. Ah yes, and of cause > dentry->d_sb needs to change automagically, because proc has no real > device id.... (partial fixes exist).
You'd also want a devfs to be mounted multiple times with different contents. Many systems use chrooted environments with subsets of /dev in them, with the appropriate permissions and so on. This needs to be possible.
J
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