Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:34:41 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [sysfs]: make readlink result shorter when the symlink and its target shared some base sysfs subdirectory |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0800, Denis Cheng wrote: > this is especially useful after /sys/slab introduced, for example: > > $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> :0000448 > > instead of: > > $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> ../slab/:0000448 > > Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
As pretty as this change is, it's not really necessary, right?
Is there any other place in /sys that would benefit from this?
thanks,
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