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

To: "David Gilbert" <ad_gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Newbie question: running devfsd forces implicit mount of /proc?
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:41:48 -0600
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David Gilbert writes:
> Richard,
> 
> Yes I have module autoloading enabled. devfsd.conf has 'LOOKUP .*
> MODLOAD' and my kernel config has the kernel module loader
> (CONFIG_KMOD=Y). The modules.devfs is bog standard as per the devfsd
> v1.2.25 tarball and my local modules.conf only has a few alias
> entries - one for the cdrom, one for ppp and two for ppp compression
> modules.

On second thought, there should be nothing that causes procfs to be
automatically mounted. That's unrelated to module autoloading.

So somewhere something is mounting procfs behind your back.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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