Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:33:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid() |
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Doing a simple strace shows that all the systems I have regular access to > > use the "getcwd()" system call anyway, which gets this right on /proc (and > > other filesystems that do not guarantee unique inode numbers) > > Oh dear -- what of programs that assume duplicate inode numbers are hard > links, and therefore assume the same contents will be found in each > duplicate?
Well, anybody who tries to back up /proc with "tar" is in for some surprises anyway ;)
Linus
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