Re: Why does GNU sed abuse /proc/filesystems? Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] revamp fs/filesystems.c

From: Alexey Dobriyan

Date: Tue May 05 2026 - 08:51:53 EST


Cedric Blancher wrote:
> Why is GNU sed touching /proc/filesystems in the first place? This is
> not really a stable API

/proc/filesystems is very much stable API.

Arguably, some fake filesystems could be hidden to make output smaller
if it helps: bdev, sockfs, bpf(?), mqueue, possibly something else.

/proc/alexey