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SubjectRe: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self
On 07/31/14 17:30, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that
> solves a couple of problems.
>
> - It makes it easy to get to a specific threads directory in /proc
> with gettid() not being exported in glibc this is currently a pain.
>
> - It allows fixing the problem present in /proc/mounts and /proc/net
> that when the thread group leader exits but the entire thread group
> remains /proc/self/net and /proc/self/mounts and thus /proc/mounts and
> /proc/net become empty.
>
> - As mount and network namespaces are per thread it allows /proc/net and
> /proc/mounts to reflect this.

Hi Eric,

Any changes/additions to Documentation/ ?

Thanks.

> This is small chance changing /proc/net and /proc/mounts will cause
> userspace regressions (although nothing has shown up in my testing) if
> that happens we can just point the change that moves them from
> /proc/self/... to /proc/thread-self/...
>
> Eric W. Biederman (4):
> proc: Have net show up under /proc/<tgid>/task/<tid>
> proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
> proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
> proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts
>
> fs/proc/Makefile | 1 +
> fs/proc/base.c | 18 ++++++---
> fs/proc/inode.c | 7 +++-
> fs/proc/internal.h | 6 +++
> fs/proc/proc_net.c | 2 +-
> fs/proc/root.c | 5 ++-
> fs/proc/thread_self.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 1 +
> 8 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


--
~Randy


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