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Message-ID: <20071120234505.GF23667@elte.hu>
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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