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On 3/24/2011 7:00 PM, Silas Silva wrote:
I'm actually not building it from scratch:-)   I'm using the pkgsrc
package manager (www.pkgsrc.org) that is source based and create binary
packages in the local computer.  The problem is that the contents of the
package differs in the case when /proc is mounted...

Ah, yes.  Now I see your problem.

[snip]
Anyway, can /proc be unmounted in GNU/Linux somehow?
[snip]

Short answer is NO. Too many things depend on it to always be there, especially in the boot scripts. Running "lsof /proc" on my workstation shows me many KDE daemons apparently using /proc/<some_pid>/status (perhaps to watch for other processes to exit?).

-Paul

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