Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-08-04 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 07:39:55PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 17:30 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > 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 j

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-08-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Bert Wesarg writes: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Eric W. Biederman > wrote: >> >> This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that >> solves a couple of problems. > > shouldn't we keep the 'task' in the name, as it points into the 'task' > directory? And why not mimic the cu

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-08-01 Thread Bert Wesarg
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that > solves a couple of problems. shouldn't we keep the 'task' in the name, as it points into the 'task' directory? And why not mimic the current 'self -> ' ideom under /proc/

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-08-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Randy Dunlap 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 i

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-07-31 Thread Randy Dunlap
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 a

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-07-31 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Davidlohr Bueso writes: > On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 17:30 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> 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

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

2014-07-31 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 17:30 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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/threa