linux & /proc

[Matthias Urlichs]

In dist.glibc, article <910021750.10205@noris.de>,
  Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> > Is /proc needed to run glibc on linux?
> 
> Not strictly. glibc uses it for getcwd(3), fstatvfs(3), and

getcwd() uses /proc only when the system call is missing. Since this holds
only for a few 2.1 kernels, the code should probably be removed.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs  |  noris network GmbH   |   smurf@noris.de  |  ICQ: 20193661
The quote was selected randomly. Really.    |      http://www.noris.de/~smurf/
-- 
Absence makes the heart grow frantic.