On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:29:37 -0800 Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Andrew, please consider this patch for inclusion in -mm.
> >
> > ...
> >
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> Can't say that we're particularly exercised about mvfs's problems, but the
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:29:37 -0800 Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Andrew, please consider this patch for inclusion in -mm.
>
> ...
>
Can't say that we're particularly exercised about mvfs's problems, but the
current way of doing /proc/pid/exe is indeed a nasty hack.
>
> fs/binf
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Engelhardt writes:
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> On Jan 23 2008 10:29, Matt Helsley wrote:
> >
> >For executables on the stackable MVFS filesystem the current procfs
> >methods for implementing a task's exe symlink do not point to the
> >correct file and applications relying on the symli
Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To solve the problem this patch changes the way that the kernel resolves a
> task's exe symlink. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first
> executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the
> mm_struct -- /foo/bar/jvm/bin/java
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:29:37AM -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
> For executables on the stackable MVFS filesystem the current procfs methods
> for
> implementing a task's exe symlink do not point to the correct file and
> applications relying on the symlink fail (see the java example below).
Dou y
On Jan 23 2008 10:29, Matt Helsley wrote:
>
>For executables on the stackable MVFS filesystem the current procfs
>methods for implementing a task's exe symlink do not point to the
>correct file and applications relying on the symlink fail (see the
>java example below).
This reminds me of unoionfs
The kernel implements readlink of /proc/pid/exe by getting the file from the
first executable VMA. Then the path to the file is reconstructed and reported as
the result. While this method is often correct it does not always identify the
correct path.
Some applications may play games with the execu
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