netdev - Re: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:45:05 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net


* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Oh, it seems it has indeed been that way for a very long time, so I 
> > was mistaken.  It still seems a little odd to me.  Ulrich can say 
> > definitively whether the kind of concern I mentioned really matters 
> > one way or the other for glibc.
> 
> glibc cannot survive (at least NPTL) if somebody uses funny CLONE_* 
> flags to separate various pieces of information, e.g., file 
> descriptors.
>  So, all the information in each thread's /proc/self should be 
>  identical.
> 
> When the information is not the same, the current semantics seems to 
> be more useful.  So I guess, no change is the way to go here.

can you see any danger to providing a /proc/self_task/ link? (or can you 
think of a better name/API/approach)

	Ingo
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