Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:01:57 -0400 | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: pre-patch2.1.45-3 lookin' good |
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At 07:39 PM 7/14/97 -0400, linux kernel account wrote: > > >On 15 Jul 1997, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> What's next? Schroedinger's files (may or may not exist)? ;-) > >Wow.. That realls summs up the development kernels.. >I've been very impressed with the progress.. Keep it up.. :) >And I *personally* would like to see symbolic links in proc.. Maby a mount >option.. Maby even /proc/names/ which would have process names as symlinks >to their pids... and /proc/users/username/ with links to that users >pids... I dont think there would be security concers that a proc option to >not show stuff thats not yours (unless you = root) couldn't fix.. > /proc/names is not possible (not that way, anyway), since processes aren't named. If you mean command-lines, that isn't possible either, since it isn't a 1:1 mapping (5 "-bash"es are normal).
> I perpose we add a new device: Schroedinger's Penguin! /dev/schro_peng.. >It will randomly return "penguin alive\n" or "penguin dead\n" whenever you >read it.. But you never know until you do.. :) > >Or how about Pavlov's Dog device.. It's sorta like binfmt_misc.. It's >learns to respond to character sequences on ptys.. Like ^G^G^G...
But putting a dog in the kernel would give us too many oopses to clean up after! (It was just too easy!)
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