Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:29:58 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry v8 |
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:55:51AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > > Now that you have reminded me of this thread. I can say that the > > link would need to look like ../../pid. Our children will always > > be thread group leaders, so we can safely point to the /proc/<pid> > > directories. So readlink would return ../../<pid> or however many > > dots are needed. Follow link could just warp us to that directory > > as it does for the other magic proc symlinks. > > > > My feeling is that a children subdirectory would be a lot more useful > > than a simple file that lists the children. > > > > I'll check what I can do, thanks. >
Sigh. This will require complete code rewrite. And since I've just made it to live under CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE I would prefer if we stick with children file. So if there are no strong objections agains 'children' as a file, could we leave it as is, ie in stream-of-pids form?
Cyrill
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