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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:47:08 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@...il.com> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, mingo@...e.hu, oleg@...sign.ru, rjw@...k.pl, roland@...hat.com, xemul@...nvz.org, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 019/233] proc: fix the threaded /proc/self "Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@...il.com> writes: > On Feb 8, 2008 1:18 PM, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: >> Long ago when the CLONE_THREAD support first went it someone thought it >> would be wise to point /proc/self at /proc/<tgid> instead of /proc/<pid>. > > The last message about this conversation is: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/172 > > So I thought we would end up with a new file, in order to make the > change discoverable. Yes. The above patch really is wrong. There is at least one corner case in procps that cares. Andrew my apologies. I noticed this earlier but forgot to ask you to remove this from your tree. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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