linux-kernel - Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

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Date:	Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:01:13 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:

> On 07/31/14 17:30, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that
>> solves a couple of problems.
>> 
>> - It makes it easy to get to a specific threads directory in /proc
>>   with gettid() not being exported in glibc this is currently a pain.
>> 
>> - It allows fixing the problem present in /proc/mounts and /proc/net
>>   that when the thread group leader exits but the entire thread group
>>   remains /proc/self/net and /proc/self/mounts and thus /proc/mounts and
>>   /proc/net become empty.
>> 
>> - As mount and network namespaces are per thread it allows /proc/net and
>>   /proc/mounts to reflect this.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Any changes/additions to Documentation/ ?

Not at this time.  I can imagine that there is proc manpage that might
need a line or two of Documentation.

I am not familiar with anything in Documentation that descripes any of
this and would benefit from an update.  From an overview perspective I
can see documenting this so people know thread-self exists.  From an
actual usage perspective:

  $ ls -l /proc/thread-self
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug  1 00:00 /proc/thread-self -> 484/task/484

seems like pretty comprehensive documentation to me.

Eric
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