Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:43:56 +0200 (MESZ) | From | Richard Guenther <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.57 /proc problem |
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> In 2.1.57 it seemed to work using proc_register and proc_unregister. > > But strange results occured after proc_unregiste (module unload): > > "ls -l /proc/e*" doesn't show /proc/egg. > "ls -l /proc/egg" shows it! > "cat /proc/egg" segfaults :-( This is a bug in procfs not deleting the dentry for the file. It's been there for a long time now... (You can easy cause this with binfmt_misc, too) I suppose, this will not be fixed until the VFS has finally moved to dentries and procfs has got a 'little' overhaul. BTW I reported this bug twice some time ago...
Richard.
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