Re: [PATCH 0/1] proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/mfd/ directory

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:45:46PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> This one behaves similarly to the /proc/<pid>/fd/ one - it contains symlinks
> one for each mapping with file, the name of a symlink is vma->vm_start, the
> target is the file. Opening a symlink results in a file that point exactly
> to the same inode as them vma's one.
> 
> This thing is aimed to help checkpointing processes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Without delving into implementation details (which look fine to me
when compared to proc_fd stuff but I'm not familiar with the code), I
think this is a generally good idea and suggest floating this towards
Andrew.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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