linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] procfs: fix tid fdinfo

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Message-ID: <20100424192735.GA5157@x200>
Date:	Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:27:35 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: fix tid fdinfo

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:16:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:40:07 +0200
> > -	DIR("fdinfo",    S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
> > +	DIR("fdinfo",    S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),

> hm, the code's been like that for over a year.  What are the
> user-visible effects of the bug, and of this change?

/proc/*/task/*/fdinfo contains symlinks to opened files like /proc/*/fd/
which is cool bug :-)
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