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SubjectRe: [patch] add file position info to proc
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?
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