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Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:03:56 -0700
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From:	Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
Subject:	RE: Skipping the /proc filesystem
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At 13:59 2003-07-23, Chris January wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote:
> > >>I would wish to tell find not to get involved with the /proc filesystem
> > >>at all. Can that easily be done?
> > >
> > > Very easily:
> > > % find / -path '/proc' -prune -o -print
> >
> > Would it make sense to identify the inodes under /proc/registry as not
> > regular files (type f), but, say, devices (or other such special files)?
>
>No.


Chris,

Just to clarify what may, due to quote trimming, appear to be a 
suggestion I made, the idea about using a special inode type for the 
/proc entries was not mine, it was David A. Cobb's.

Randall Schulz


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