dev-3.12-1

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Mon Sep 13 16:05:49 UTC 2004


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:35, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:
> Just make sure you don't bind-mount /proc or /sys, otherwise dev will
> tell /dev is a tmpfs and refuse to install.  I *hope* the absence of
> /proc and /sys won't prevent SELinux contexts from being set, but I'm
> not entirely sure.  Worst case, you may have to fixfiles /dev if you
> ever boot without udev, so it's hopefully not a big deal.

/proc/mounts is read by libselinux.so to discover the mount point for 
selinuxfs.  So without /proc you won't get SE Linux functionality.  /sys 
should not matter for SE Linux.

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