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This practice is not unique to open source. Copyright and patent infringement is an ongoing concern for all developers.
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The term cylinder was borrowed from the unit of storage on a rotational media. It consists of the data under a group of heads on a given sector of a disk device. Here it is used for compatibility purposes with the existing file system utilities.
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File systems can be made mountable by nonroot users, as with cdrom.
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A file on a file system is represented by an internal ext2 data structure called an inode.
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Metadata is data about the file, as opposed to the file's data itself. Examples include a file's date, time, size, blocks used, and so on.
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Converting a file system in this manner should be considered a development activity only.
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It is certainly possible to mount /proc anywhere you like on your file system, but all the utilities (including mount) that require proc expect to find it mounted on /proc.
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The size was fixed in the kernel configuration when we enabled the MTD RAM test device in the Linux kernel configuration.
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The kernel can be configured to operate with a wrong-endian MTD file system, at the cost of reduced performance. In some configurations (such as multiprocessor designs), this can be a useful feature.
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We cover the details of symbolic links shortly.
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We covered the details of System V initialization in Chapter 6.
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Webster's defines nonsense as 'an idea that is absurd or contrary to good sense.' It is my opinion that developing embedded Linux platforms on a non-Linux/UNIX host is nonsensical.
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See SIG_KERNEL_COREDUMP_MASK in .../kernel/signal.c for a definition of which signals generate a core dump.
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Signals and their associated numbers are defined in .../asm-<arch>/signal.h in your Linux kernel source tree.
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Actually, support for the underlying engine that cbrowser uses is in the Linux build system.
