From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751244AbWHSIHB (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:07:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751286AbWHSIHA (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:07:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31213 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbWHSIHA (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:07:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:06:56 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: , Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven. Message-Id: <20060819010656.e169c3b7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1155665132774-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> References: <1155665132774-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:05:27 -0600 "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > By not rolling our own inode we get a little more code reuse, > and things get a little simpler and we don't have special > cases to contend with later. On a standard FC5 install (which has selinux enabled) things get very ugly. udev: MAKEDEV: mkdir: file exists followed by a stream of udev errors of various sorts and then an infinite loop of auditd complaints about klogd and "/" and tmpfs. Nothing makes it to logs because klogd itself is failing.