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SubjectRe: no need for a devfs

>What would be good also would be a mount/umount suite using /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab... :-)
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>Oh well, I'll probably just do that someday...


Yes, please! This is what I had in mind when I originally wrote
/proc/mounts two years ago. I'm kind of suprized to only now see this
thought, though! My intention was to do away (eventually) with /etc/mtab
and the "problem" of trying to write to it when the machine boots the partition
in read-only mode. The kernel already knows all that stuff so why not
let mount/umount use the /proc/mount instead.

Actually I verified that my modified version of mount/umount would work with
just /proc/mount and it worked fine. I tried to locate the authors of
mount/umount but was unable to find anybody at the time. Maybe now is
the time.

Thanks!
- David Summers



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