Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:36:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] add file position info to proc |
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:24:20 +0000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi! > > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> > > > > This patch adds support for finding out the current file position, > > open flags and possibly other info in the future. > > > > These new entries are added: > > > > /proc/PID/fdinfo/FD > > /proc/PID/task/TID/fdinfo/FD > > > > For each fd the information is provided in the following format: > > > > pos: 1234 > > flags: 0100002 > > Octal? Maybe we should use more traditional hex here?
Good point. The O_foo flags are per-arch, so this field has the potential to be subtly different on different architectures, which is unpleasing.
> Or even list flags by name?
urg. Simple enough to do (lookup table, please). But is it worth it? Perhaps just remove that field? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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