On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 05:40, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here's the updated patch appended. Linus, feel free to commit it
> directly or if you prefer I can send it to you later this week.
Applied.
> In any case, I really really would like to try to move away from the
> current insanity maybe by the end of the year. So I really hope that
> lsof changes to the same format that strace already changed to so we can
> flip the switch. That should allow us to get rid of both the weird
> non-type st_mode issue and the unpleasant name faking. Does that sound
> like something we can try?
We can try it again later and see if nobody notices because they've
updated their user space.
That said, from previous experience, some people (and some distros)
very seldom update user space, but this is hopefully enough of a
corner case that *most* people won't even realize they've hit it, so
maybe it's one of those "fraction of a fraction is zero" cases.
Linus
