> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 10:23 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:15:06AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > I think this information would be a little easier to access if there > > > would be a single file per pid or thread containing something like: > > > > > > handle flags pos path > > > 0 0100002 1234 /dev/pts/1 > > > 1 0100004 5678 /tmp/output > > > etc. > > > > That would not be a good idea, as not all users have the same permissions > > for viewing this information. > > How will this have different permission issues than Miklos' patch? > > > It's also quite against the design philosophy > > used elsewhere in /proc. > > What's so different between this and /proc/<pid>/maps > or /proc/<pid>/mounts? I think the problem is not with permissions, but with scaling to large numbers of file descriptors. The user is usually interested in a single file descriptor, so it would be a large waste of resources to put together all this info at the kernel end, just to let the user parse it all and select the single line in which s/he is interested in. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
