Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 07/31/14 17:30, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that >> solves a couple of problems. >> >> - It makes it easy to get to a specific threads directory in /proc >> with gettid() not being exported in glibc this is currently a pain. >> >> - It allows fixing the problem present in /proc/mounts and /proc/net >> that when the thread group leader exits but the entire thread group >> remains /proc/self/net and /proc/self/mounts and thus /proc/mounts and >> /proc/net become empty. >> >> - As mount and network namespaces are per thread it allows /proc/net and >> /proc/mounts to reflect this. > > Hi Eric, > > Any changes/additions to Documentation/ ? Not at this time. I can imagine that there is proc manpage that might need a line or two of Documentation. I am not familiar with anything in Documentation that descripes any of this and would benefit from an update. From an overview perspective I can see documenting this so people know thread-self exists. From an actual usage perspective: $ ls -l /proc/thread-self lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 1 00:00 /proc/thread-self -> 484/task/484 seems like pretty comprehensive documentation to me. Eric -- 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
