[systemd-devel] Do we need /dev/core?

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johannbg at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 04:02:18 PST 2015



On 12/30/2015 11:44 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Dec 30, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You should ask that question on the kernel mailinglist and or on the Debian
>> devel list if they want to remove that symbolic link to /proc/kcore
> I am already dealing with the Debian side (and there is no point in
> removing the link if the other distributions will not follow), but I am
> not sure why LKML should dictate the policy here.

Because /dev and /proc is their territory and if /dev/core should be 
removed from standard symlinks creation in udev that's probably for them 
to decide.

Why do you want to remove it, what harm does that symlink do?


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