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From: Zan Lynx <zlynx-HInyCGIudOg@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
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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?