On Mon 2009-10-26 13:42:17, Dan Yefimov wrote: > On 25.10.2009 2:40, psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >Dear Pavel, > > > >>... that's exactly the problem. > > > >I see, the /proc/*/fd/* objects seem "confused": are they symlinks, > >hardlinks, or open file descriptors? I guess should always act as > >the latter, where access mode flags (O_RDONLY or O_RDWR) are set at > >open() and not changeable afterwards in fcntl(). Any open() on them > >should behave as a dup(). > > > Paul, in authentic kernels /proc/<PID>/fd/<FD> are symlinks, not > anything other. There're no such publicly accessible file objects, > as file descriptors, there're only files (including special ones), > directories and symlinks. But the above words don't necessary relate > to patched kernels like distributed by third parties. Check your facts. Those symlinks are special. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
