Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> writes:
> * Albert Cahalan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 27, 2007 7:49 PM, Guillaume Chazarain <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > [email protected] wrote:
>> >
>> > > We may be stuck with the current broken behavior for backwards
>> > > compatibility reasons but lets try fixing our ancient bug for the 2.6.25
>> > > time frame and see if anyone screams.
>>
>> It's not broken. It's just not the feature you're looking for.
>
> well it's quite broken at the moment and we are looking for solutions
> not for a blame game :-) You might have read the thread where i describe
> what i had to go through to do something fairly trivial.
Yes.
In a lot of ways if you access /proc/self and you get back information
that does not correspond to yourself the result is nonsense. Which
is a fairly mighty problem.
I'm still trying to understand which will break user space more,
adding /proc/task or changing /proc/self.
>> This one is probably best:
>> /proc/task -> 123/task/456
>> (with both numbers showing)
>
> this sounds good to me. If it's a symlink then there's not much other
> choice because the thread PIDs do not even show up under /proc anymore.
The name sounds good to me.
I am not certain the two components make sense as we have a possible
permission problem where it is remotely possible that a task will
have permission to access /proc/<tid> but not /proc/<tgid>.
We certainly need to think through that case before making it
to a stable kernel.
The reason I care is that we need to fix /proc/mounts. So once we
have /proc/task we can also have change /proc/mounts to
be a symlink to /proc/task/mounts.
Once we get the /proc/mounts thing sorted out. There are several
other entries in /proc that need to that need to follow in it's wake
as they also become per namespace. /proc/net and /proc/sysvipc for
starters.
Eric
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