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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:45:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071120234505.GF23667@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47436E7F.2060901@redhat.com>


* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-19 19:10 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net Pavel Machek
2007-11-19 22:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-11-20 15:51   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-20 21:52     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-20 21:59       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 22:17         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-20 22:35           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 22:54             ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-20 23:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:06                 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-11-20 23:26                   ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-20 23:32                     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-20 23:45                       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-11-20 23:51                         ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-21  0:47                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-21  1:01                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-11-21  0:41                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-20 23:43                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 22:41         ` [PATCH] proc: Fix the threaded /proc/self Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-20 22:58           ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-11-20 23:03           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-21  1:19     ` 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-21  6:36     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-21  9:36       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-24 23:34     ` [CFT][PATCH] proc_net: Remove userspace visible changes Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-26  8:43       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-26 22:17     ` [PATCH 2.6.24-rc3] Fix /proc/net breakage Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-27 11:20       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-27 12:36         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-07  4:51       ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-07 10:23         ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-07 11:11           ` Denis V. Lunev
2007-12-27 17:40           ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-27 18:41             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-12-27 22:17               ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-28  6:22                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-12-28  7:21                   ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-30 16:14                     ` [usb regression] " Ingo Molnar
2007-12-30 20:34                       ` Alan Stern
2007-12-31  5:25                         ` Greg KH
2007-12-31 17:49                           ` Alan Stern
2007-12-31 19:26                             ` Greg KH
2008-01-02  6:00                               ` Greg KH
2008-01-02  6:13                                 ` Andreas Mohr
2008-01-02  7:14                                   ` Greg KH
2008-01-02 15:56                                 ` Alan Stern
2008-01-02 18:48                                   ` David Brownell
2008-01-02  6:04                         ` Andreas Mohr
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     [not found]         ` <fa.QqYdKsBUWKSLLGXmxJCAtZxLYnE@ifi.uio.no>
2007-11-21  1:21           ` 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net Robert Hancock
2007-11-21  1:41             ` Eric W. Biederman

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