Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:20:39 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] what the hell is going on with /proc/self? |
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:03:36AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > What is the proc_base_stuff[] nonsense about? AFAICS, that > went in with no reason whatsoever in > commit 801199ce805a2412bbcd9bfe213092ec656013dd > Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> > Date: Mon Oct 2 02:18:48 2006 -0700 > > Rationale is very weak and patch adds considerable complexity > for no good reason. Besides, it's obfuscated just for the hell of it: > if (!IS_ERR(result) || PTR_ERR(result) != -ENOENT) > instead of > if (result != ERR_PTR(-ENOENT)) > etc. > > Unless there are _real_ plans that would justify that animal, > I'm going to get rid of it in the pending patch series (/proc/self > cleanups, saner dentry retention for non-process parts, etc.).
Seems obvious to cc: Eric.
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