In oddball cases where the thread has a different mount namespace than the thread group leader or more likely in cases where the thread remains and the thread group leader has exited this ensures that /proc/mounts continues to work. This should not cause any problems but if it does this patch can just be reverted. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/root.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c index 48f1c03bc7ed..92c12c243ce3 100644 --- a/fs/proc/root.c +++ b/fs/proc/root.c @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void) proc_self_init(); proc_thread_self_init(); - proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts"); + proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "thread-self/mounts"); proc_net_init(); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html