Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:38:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Who changed /proc/<pid>/ in 2.6.0-test5-bk9? |
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On 1 Oct 2003, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > It certainly seems to me that the intent of /proc/self is > to point to a "process", which is a tgid in kernel terms.
My argument against that is that it actually loses information. Now there is no way to easily look up the current thread stuff.
If /proc/self points to a thread, it's easy to look up the process with a "/proc/self/../..".
So in that sense it's a bad interface to point to the process, not the thread.
> I think there is something clearly defective about having > the /proc/self link point to a hidden directory.
It's not hidden. It would just point to the real thread directory..
Linus
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