On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:35:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: (...) > Yes, it would be semantically different, but it would mean that > "/proc/self/fd/" would actually make sense in a way that it currently > does *not* - which would seem fairly important, since the primary use > for it tends to be /dev/stdin. I remember another user, don't know if that has changed. UPX used to build self-extract binaries that opened /proc/self/fd/3. It might be worth checking this as well if doing important changes, because it's typically a usage that could be discovered to be broken months after the change! Willy -- 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
