On 08/27, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > /proc/self points to /proc/<tgid>, not to /proc/<tid>, and thus > > "self" actually means "group leader". > > > > Change fs/proc/self.c to print the caller's tid, this is probably > > what the users actually expect. > > Yeah, thinking more about this, this can't work. I think you'd need to > use "/proc/<tgid>/task/<tid>" wouldn't you? Why? To me /proc/self == /proc/$((sys_gettid)) looks more natural. Say, /proc/self/task... But this is subjective. Not to mention, that would be much more visible change. > Anyway, does not not sound worth it. Your previous simple patch is > probably the right thing to do. OK, lets forget it. Although to be honest, I was seduced by "Worth testing". I mean I am just curious, who can suffer from this change? Nevermind, please ignore. 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
