Quoting Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= (2013-09-19 12:19:00) > Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > > > This patch makes runsystem.sh check whether /proc is set up and does > > so using settrans -c if it is not. > > I think this should be a Debian patch rather, because while /proc is a > useful Linux compatibility feature, it’s not a mandatory part of the Hurd.
Ah yes, of course. I keep getting those mixed up in my head ;) Then again, I always wondered why the procfs lives outside the Hurd source. Yes, Linux has /proc, but so do many other Unixes and - if memory serves right - /proc is a gift from plan9, no? And the Hurd uses the filesystem as namespace for server lookups, that seems to follow closely the everything-is-a-file philosophy right? And if everything is a file, processes should be as well, hence /proc. Justus
