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From: Zan Lynx <zlynx-HInyCGIudOg@public.gmane.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	James Bottomley
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	containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org,
	Nathan Lynch <ntl-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
	LINUXFS-ML
	<linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Andrew Morton
	<akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:05:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E551331.1010709@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110824085329.GL29452@sun>

On 8/24/2011 2:53 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
> 
> 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, the
> target is the file. Opening a symlink results in a file that point exactly
> to the same inode as them vma's one.
> 
> This thing is aimed to help checkpointing processes.
> 
> For example the ls -l of some arbitrary /proc/<pid>/map_files/
> 
>  | lr-x------ 1 cyrill cyrill 64 Aug  9 15:25 0x3d73a00000 -> /lib64/ld-2.5.so
[snip]

Just curious: How do these symlinks work when the process reading a
/proc file is in a chroot or a different namespace?

For example, a chroot environment might have independent copies of
/lib64/ld-2.5.so and a bind mount of /proc. Does the symlink then point
to the wrong file?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24  8:53 [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24  9:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-24  9:33   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-24  9:34 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-24  9:37   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24  9:41     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 11:18 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-24 11:31   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25  8:29   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:01     ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:05       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-25 17:21         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:25           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-25 17:27             ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:34               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:07       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 20:54         ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 21:12           ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 21:34             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 21:39               ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-26  6:58                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 11:29                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 12:28                   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-08-26 12:39                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 13:16                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 14:06                       ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-26 14:23                         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-08-26 14:27                           ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:11       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:36     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-25 17:39       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:54         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-25 18:13           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 15:05 ` Zan Lynx [this message]
2011-08-24 15:19   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-24 17:36     ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-25  6:42       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-25 14:04         ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-25 14:30           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 14:47           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-24 15:22   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-13 14:14 ` Pavel Machek
2011-09-13 14:20   ` Pavel Emelyanov

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