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SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net

* 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)

Ingo
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