Re: OT: devfs and /proc/mounts

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Goswin Brederlow writes:
> I'm using a 2.4.0-test1-ac7 kernel with devfs mounted automatically
> and /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts.
> 
> /proc/mounts now contains the following:
> 
> none / shm rw 0 0
> none pipe: pipefs rw 0 0
> none / proc rw 0 0
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /dev devfs rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> 
> Now I kind of guess what shm and the first proc are for, but what is
> the pipefs doing there and what is it for?

I dunno what pipefs is needed for. I haven't tracked that discussion.

However, what does this have to do with devfs?

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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