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From: Andrew Morton <akpm00@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:52:22 -0700
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:14:01 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:

> This one behaves similarly to the /proc/<pid>/fd/ one - it contains symlinks
> one for each mapping with file, the name of a symlink is "vma->vm_start-vma->vm_end",
> the target is the file. Opening a symlink results in a file that point exactly
> to the same inode as them vma's one.

We should fully work through Pavel Machek's comments, please.  For some
reason I'm a bit paranoid about security lately :(