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SubjectRe: pre-patch2.1.45-3 lookin' good
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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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