Hi, On 22 June 2010 14:15, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > i'm in the middle of writing a lesson regarding the proc filesystem > and i was wondering about any compelling reasons to *not* select the > proc filesystem for the kernel you're building if you're working with > a fairly new kernel source tree. > > the only reason i can come up with is if you're building a *really* > tiny embedded system that is stripped and minimal to the point where > it's unnecessary, but even *that* doesn't sound convincing. Perhaps if you only ever had one user process running (init?) and you never wanted to run ps... Surely procfs isn't that big as to justify removing it on size constraints? Regards, Srdjan (who hasn't done kernel things in years) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
