From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10098 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: realpath() depends on a mounted /proc to work Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 07:17:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160607011538.GU10893@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465276694 5511 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2016 05:18:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 05:18:14 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-10111-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jun 07 07:17:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bA9Oo-0007jI-Pf for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:17:58 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7461 invoked by uid 550); 7 Jun 2016 05:17:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 7440 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2016 05:17:55 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 In-Reply-To: <20160607011538.GU10893@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10098 Archived-At: On 07/06/16 03:15, Rich Felker wrote: > As a whole, musl depends on having /proc; the rationale is simply that > Linux does not expose all the functionality needed to implement POSIX > without /proc. That would be a boon for those wanting to write an (early and not early) init system and be sure that the code that would lead to mount /proc wouldn't have any issue. lu