Re: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Oh, it seems it has indeed been that way for a very long time, so I 
> > was mistaken.  It still seems a little odd to me.  Ulrich can say 
> > definitively whether the kind of concern I mentioned really matters 
> > one way or the other for glibc.
> 
> glibc cannot survive (at least NPTL) if somebody uses funny CLONE_* 
> flags to separate various pieces of information, e.g., file 
> descriptors.
>  So, all the information in each thread's /proc/self should be 
>  identical.
> 
> When the information is not the same, the current semantics seems to 
> be more useful.  So I guess, no change is the way to go here.

can you see any danger to providing a /proc/self_task/ link? (or can you 
think of a better name/API/approach)

	Ingo
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