Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:45:05 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net |
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* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Oh, it seems it has indeed been that way for a very long time, so I > > was mistaken. It still seems a little odd to me. Ulrich can say > > definitively whether the kind of concern I mentioned really matters > > one way or the other for glibc. > > glibc cannot survive (at least NPTL) if somebody uses funny CLONE_* > flags to separate various pieces of information, e.g., file > descriptors. > So, all the information in each thread's /proc/self should be > identical. > > When the information is not the same, the current semantics seems to > be more useful. So I guess, no change is the way to go here.
can you see any danger to providing a /proc/self_task/ link? (or can you think of a better name/API/approach)
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