Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:57:55 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: linux kernel without file system |
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Philippe De Muyter wrote: > Actually, I was thinking about reducing the footprint of my kernel by > removing all the fs-related system calls, so the problem is not where > the file-system is, but how to access (serial) devices without giving their > "/dev/..." name.
That's fighting the UNIX design, in "which everything is a file." You can remove all of the disk-based filesystems, but if you try to remove open, close, read or write there'll be almost nothing that you can usefully do.
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