Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix the threaded /proc/self.

2007-11-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We may be stuck with the current broken behavior for backwards > compatibility reasons but lets try fixing our ancient bug for the > 2.6.25 time frame and see if anyone screams. to make sure i got you right - do you agree that this is a regressi

Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix the threaded /proc/self.

2007-11-20 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
Hello Eric, This fills a need I had to get the current TID in a Java program, so I'm very interested in this change. OTOH, how will someone not reading LKML discover that the current TID is now in /proc/self and that it was not always the case? I would put my 2 cents in /proc/self/task/self, this