Re: [PATCH] KERN_INFO for devfs

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 08:40:57 EST


On 29 January 2002 05:27, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > I changed "none" to "devfs" in do_mount("none", "/dev", "devfs", 0,
>
> ""):
> > "none is busy" is misleading at umount time :-)
>
> File systems that do not have real devices behind them have "none" as
> device. Please do not change it - it was correct. Having it later in
> /proc/mounts may confuse some user-level tools. If you want to fix it -
> fix umount to report something more sensible if device == none.

Why do you think they _have to_ have "none"? Is it POSIXized or otherwise
standardized? Where can I RTFM?

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vda
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