Re: Continuing the procfs cleanup

1999-10-27 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alex, I now have most of your procfs patch ported to the latest kernels, at http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/UNTESTED/proc_cleanup_19991026-2.3.24-pre1.patch.gz Note this is a --cvs patch-- and thus not easily applied by patch. Thanks. I'll

Re: Continuing the procfs cleanup

1999-10-27 Thread Guest section DW
From: Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's actually one more TODO point. And pretty serious one, at it. We got a severely cluttered namespace under /proc (little gems a-la /proc/h8 and friends). It's a Bad Thing (tm) for a lot of obvious reasons. We

Continuing the procfs cleanup (was Re: updates to procfs?)

1999-10-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alexander Viro wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: Comments on your procfs patch: I like it. :) It looks like many xxx_read_proc operation in fs/proc/proc_array.c contains the _exact_ same code for adjusting 'len', 'start', etc. Cleanup should take care of that.

Re: Continuing the procfs cleanup

1999-10-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Guest section DW wrote: From: Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's actually one more TODO point. And pretty serious one, at it. We got a severely cluttered namespace under /proc (little gems a-la /proc/h8 and friends). It's a Bad Thing (tm) for a lot of