Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: pre-patch2.1.45-3 lookin' good | Date | 14 Jul 1997 14:19:10 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > The full path name information is very cool: we can do a "getcwd()" system > call that is going to be a few orders of magnitude faster than the > traditional way of doing "getcwd()". > Plus, we can _finally_ have a /proc/mounts file that _stays_ correct even if you rename the device file. Or the mount point, which should be slightly more common. ;-)
And: real file names in /proc/*/fd/*. Wow. Is there any other Unix that comes even close to being able to do this?
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