On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Srdjan Todorovic <todorovic.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Perhaps if you only ever had one user process running (init?) and you
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.
never wanted to run ps...
Surely procfs isn't that big as to justify removing it on size constraints?
I ack Srdjan because proc can be skipped if you do not need more than a few userspace programs as a tiny embedded system where it has to deal with a specific problem rather than a general purpose embedded system like PC or a smartphone.
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Shaz
