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Message-ID: <20130827182816.GA2992@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:28:16 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] proc: make /proc/self point to thread
On 08/27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > Although to be honest, I was seduced by "Worth testing". I mean I am
> > just curious, who can suffer from this change? Nevermind, please
> > ignore.
>
> Yeah, if we were to redesign /proc I'd do it differently, but I think
> we should just accept that it works "well enough" and there's just too
> much risk from making changes that aren't strictly required.
Yes, agreed.
To all: just in case, I will be completely offline till Sep 10, vacation.
So, Eric, if you still disagree with s/task_pid/task_tgid/ change please
nack that (minor) patch, we can return to this later.
Oleg.
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