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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a /proc/self/exedir link
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:24:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7ylrq3n.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0604041752070.14611@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (Jan Engelhardt's message of "4 Apr 2006 16:54:57 +0100")

On 4 Apr 2006, Jan Engelhardt whispered secretively:
> No objections. We'll see what it can buy us, when we get the chance 
> to use it. If it sucks, it will find its way out again. :)

In my experience, if it sucks, it'll be part of the ABI and can't be
removed without breaking userspace code (to wit, /proc/{pid}/smaps,
whose only likely widespread user has declared it too horribly-formatted
to use (i.e. acahalan and procps), but it's still there...)

Stuff in /proc/{pid}/ doesn't die easily...

-- 
`Come now, you should know that whenever you plan the duration of your
 unplanned downtime, you should add in padding for random management
 freakouts.'

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-04 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03 23:01 [PATCH] Add a /proc/self/exedir link Mike Hearn
2006-04-03 23:26 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-03 23:30 ` Neil Brown
2006-04-04 15:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-04 21:24   ` Nix [this message]
2006-04-05 20:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-05 21:52   ` Mike Hearn
2006-04-06 23:33     ` Tony Luck
2006-04-07  7:52       ` Neil Brown
2006-04-07  9:15         ` Andreas Schwab
2006-04-07 19:10           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-08  8:26           ` Jan Engelhardt
     [not found] <5XGlt-GY-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5XGOz-1eP-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-04-06 11:39   ` Bodo Eggert
2006-04-06 13:21     ` Mike Hearn
2006-04-06 17:02       ` Bodo Eggert
2006-04-06 19:36         ` Mike Hearn
2006-04-07 18:40           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 19:22             ` Mike Hearn

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