Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:07:22 -0500 (EST) | From | Dan Merillat <> | Subject | Re: unmountin /proc |
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Charles Diffey wrote:
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 13:05:43 -0400 > From: Charles Diffey <cdiffey@sun1.uconect.net> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: unmountin /proc > > Howdy, > Well I've put on my asbestos shorts so here goes, > > I do not know why anyone would want to unmount /proc. > > If memory serves me right from the good ole' days of OS classes: > > /proc is a special filesystems that really is not a filesystem. /proc is the > memory image at any given moment. /proc is set up to LOOK like a real > filesystem so that useful utilities such as ps and other processes that > need current system information can do so in the usual *nix manner: > everything looks like a file to *nix.
Not quite, but very close. You are right about it looking like files, but it is a REAL filesystem.
> Now if one were to unmount the current process running in core it will of > course tell you taht it is busy as it attempts to commit suicide and grant > your wish of unmounting all currently running process.
Nope. /proc is a WINDOW into the kernel... so by unmounting it you close the window... it is very valid to unmount /proc.
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