Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:51 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry v8 |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:11:21PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> How would these symlinks look like? "../../pid"? There were a conversation > >> about such things (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/2/142) but I suppose we > >> were agree on children with pids as consensus. > > > > I couldn't find any agreement in this link. Suppose wrong url? > > 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.
Cyrill
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