Re: CONFIG_* used by user-space to figure out whether a feature is on/off

Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16T00:53:12Z

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to point out that Google Chrome also makes use of CONFIG_ tests
> to detect support for namespaces and pid containers and stuff.

Hmm. It must work fine despite that. Because I run self-compiled
kernels and there are no config files to be found by user apps.
Neither in /proc nor in /boot. And I'm using chrome to write this.

Linus