Re: [patch] Remove the magic entries from /proc/mounts

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sat, 01 Jul 2000 01:44:58 -0700

"James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
>
> >>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> hpa> WRONG. shmfs *should be mounted*.
>
> It is shoing up twice, though. Once as 'none / shm rw 0 0' and
> once as whatever it is mounted as from userspace (in my case it
> is 'none /dev/shm shm rw 0 0'.
>
> 'Twould be cool were the first to be 'none shm: shm rw 0 0'.
> Also for the internal-only proc and devfs mounts.
>

Yes... I'm confused why they are there at all.

NOMOUNT filesystems should almost certainly not be listed at all, unless
someone has a good argument for why some proc filesystem tools need it.

-hpa

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