Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:01:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self |
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Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:
> 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/ ?
Not at this time. I can imagine that there is proc manpage that might need a line or two of Documentation.
I am not familiar with anything in Documentation that descripes any of this and would benefit from an update. From an overview perspective I can see documenting this so people know thread-self exists. From an actual usage perspective:
$ ls -l /proc/thread-self lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 1 00:00 /proc/thread-self -> 484/task/484
seems like pretty comprehensive documentation to me.
Eric
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