Config option for /proc as well as /dev/pts?

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 07:34, Rob Sullivan wrote:
> > a bunch of those utils prob wouldnt work at all if /proc is unavailable
> > ... -mike
>
> Either that, or they'd require a substantial rewrite with lots of
> hairy code that does some kernel magic - after all, most of the stuff
> that's dependent on proc is dependent on it for system info, which is
> hard to get by other means...
>
> Rob

Let's not go there.

Let's not go there in a big way.

I'm all for a few simple questions in config that disable stuff.  Sounds like 
disabling the entire applet is what we want.  (Hey, if they don't want /proc 
they give up a lot.)

(I also want to do a big switch to disable --long-options as well, although 
that needs some thought because some options like tar --exclude can only be 
selected via long options...)

Rob