Re: v2.1.106 (and earlier) /proc/<pid>/* is a mess...

Vadim E. Kogan (vadim@vadim.gem.net)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:38:06 -0700

Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> Hello guys,
>
> We (Vadim and me) were debugging some stuff in fs/proc/base.c and
> discovered that the bug I mentioned earlier disappears if we remove the
> p->dumpable || (ino == PROC_PID_INO) check in proc_pid_fill_inode().
Well, the right way is:

( !p->dumpable || ino == PROC_PID_INO )

>
> I understand why the ino == check should be removed but I am somewhat
> unclear why is dumpable flag relevant for the /proc/<pid>/* files and the
> connection (IRC) to Vadim was lost unfortunately so I couldn't ask him :)
Im back again - sorry, some problems in ISP.

>
> Anyway, I thought you might like to know...

Could you please make a patch and throw it into linux-kernel? I got too
many modifications now...

Vadim

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