Re: [PATCH] procfs: make /proc style symlinks behave like "normal"symlinks

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2009-11-20 10:31:40, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Adding the missing revalidations is fine, but I don't believe that
> > > helps to fix Pavel's issue. I'll go back and take a more careful look
> > > at the suggestion that Miklos made and see whether it makes sense to
> > > implement a new FS_* flag for this, and see what it'll take to fix
> > > Pavel's issue.
> 
> What is this "Pavel's issue"?

The one we were talking about, see bugtraq.

> > One posibility would be to make open(/proc/XX/fd/XX) behave like
> > dup(). That should solve the NFS problems, too, no?
> 
> You mean, reuse the old "struct file" for the new open?  Or what?

Aha, dup() results in file position being shared. You are right,
that's not going to fly :-(.
									Pavel

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