From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] fix handling of st_nlink on procfs root
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:04:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17j855om3.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1F6vyO-00009r-3a@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:31:32 +0000")
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> writes:
> Date: 1139427460 -0500
>
> 1) it should use nr_processes(), not nr_threads; otherwise we are getting
> very confused find(1) and friends, among other things.
> 2) better do that at stat() time than at every damn lookup in procfs root.
>
> Patch had been sitting in FC4 kernels for many months now...
Ack.
There are some other similar problems still in /proc.
In my pid namespace work I have some managed to clean most of
this up, and finally split proc into two filesystems.
The only was I was able to get the union to work was
to let lookup return files in an internal mount.
The only problem was that /proc/irq/.. != /proc/
I will finish all of this up shortly but do you know a good
way to do a union mount when we mount proc?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 20:31 [PATCH 8/8] fix handling of st_nlink on procfs root Al Viro
2006-02-09 1:04 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-02-09 2:17 ` Al Viro
2006-02-09 3:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-15 9:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-15 10:39 ` Al Viro
2006-02-15 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
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