linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven.

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Date:	Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:06:56 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table
 driven.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:05:27 -0600
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> By not rolling our own inode we get a little more code reuse,
> and things get a little simpler and we don't have special
> cases to contend with later.

On a standard FC5 install (which has selinux enabled) things get very ugly.

udev: MAKEDEV: mkdir: file exists

followed by a stream of udev errors of various sorts and then an infinite
loop of auditd complaints about klogd and "/" and tmpfs.  Nothing makes it
to logs because klogd itself is failing.

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