Re: Newbie question: running devfsd forces implicit mount of /proc?

[Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:38, David Gilbert wrote:
> I've just started playing around with devfs and encountered an odd thing
> (to me anyway)...
>
> Once running, I noticed errors from the init scripts about trying to mount
> /proc. I've disabled the explict mount of /proc to work around the problem.
> But what's going on? It seems that once devfsd is running there is an
> implicit mounting of /proc? Is this normal behaviour?

You don't mention which distribution you're using, it's probably a 
distribution issue.

My start script for Debian mounts /proc because that's the only way to 
determine whether it's already running.

Why is this a problem?

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