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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:31 +0000
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To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
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Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> To solve the problem this patch changes the way that the kernel resolves a
> task's exe symlink. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first
> executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the
> mm_struct -- /foo/bar/jvm/bin/java in the example above.

Sounds interesting.

> 	nommu-only code paths are untested -- lacking access to nommu system

I could test it, but it'll have to wait until I get back from LCA in a couple
of weeks time.

David

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