From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762652AbYBHRtt (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:49:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759476AbYBHRtk (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:49:40 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:43556 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759724AbYBHRtj (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:49:39 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Guillaume Chazarain" Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, mingo@elte.hu, oleg@tv-sign.ru, rjw@sisk.pl, roland@redhat.com, xemul@openvz.org, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [patch 019/233] proc: fix the threaded /proc/self References: <200802081218.m18CIHEx023631@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <3d8471ca0802080554pfecb2v32dcb8ece0da346a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:47:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3d8471ca0802080554pfecb2v32dcb8ece0da346a@mail.gmail.com> (Guillaume Chazarain's message of "Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:54:51 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Guillaume Chazarain" writes: > On Feb 8, 2008 1:18 PM, wrote: >> Long ago when the CLONE_THREAD support first went it someone thought it >> would be wise to point /proc/self at /proc/ instead of /proc/. > > The last message about this conversation is: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/172 > > So I thought we would end up with a new file, in order to make the > change discoverable. Yes. The above patch really is wrong. There is at least one corner case in procps that cares. Andrew my apologies. I noticed this earlier but forgot to ask you to remove this from your tree. Eric