From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux kernel without file system
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:49:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114144937.GA21043@frolo.macqel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496DF66B.9050605@davidnewall.com>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:57:55AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > Actually, I was thinking about reducing the footprint of my kernel by
> > removing all the fs-related system calls, so the problem is not where
> > the file-system is, but how to access (serial) devices without giving their
> > "/dev/..." name.
>
> That's fighting the UNIX design, in "which everything is a file." You
> can remove all of the disk-based filesystems, but if you try to remove
> open, close, read or write there'll be almost nothing that you can
> usefully do.
Of course, I need read, write and ioctl and socket and friends but I do not
need open, creat, link, rename etc.
Philippe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 8:46 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-01-14 9:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 9:52 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-01-14 10:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 14:27 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-01-14 14:52 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 14:57 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-01-14 15:24 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 15:31 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-01-15 18:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-14 10:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-01-14 13:49 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-01-17 19:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-01-14 11:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-14 12:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 14:27 ` David Newall
2009-01-14 14:49 ` Philippe De Muyter [this message]
2009-01-14 15:14 ` David Newall
2009-01-14 17:02 ` John Stoffel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-14 8:30 Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 10:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 15:34 ` Enrico Weigelt
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