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Re: linux & /proc

In dist.glibc, article <910021750.10205@noris.de>,
  Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> > Is /proc needed to run glibc on linux?
> 
> Not strictly. glibc uses it for getcwd(3), fstatvfs(3), and

getcwd() uses /proc only when the system call is missing. Since this holds
only for a few 2.1 kernels, the code should probably be removed.

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