Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:19:47 +1100 | From | john slee <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc standards (was dot-proc interface [was: /proc |
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:22:16PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Splitting /proc can be done. Start by mounting procfs twice. > Make non-process stuff in /proc invisible, but still available. > Then in /kernel the process stuff can be disabled. The proc fs > code can even register two filesystem types, with different ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ||||||||||||||||||||
this is the key part. two filesystems and union mount should satisfy backward compatibility needs while lspci and friends are migrating to /kern.
this makes it a distribution issue, not a kernel issue, and there is no need for special backwards-compatibility stuff in either kernfs or procfs.
j.
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