On 08/26, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > 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. But /proc/<tgid>/fd and /proc/<tid>/fd should be the same. Unless it plays with unshare() or clone(CLONE_THREAD /* no CLONE_FILES */). Unlike, but: > because it's typically a usage that > could be discovered to be broken months after the change! Oh yes, I agree. This change is trivial but nasty, god knows what people actually do with /proc/self. Oleg. -- 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
