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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:13:58 -0500
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:20:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > It would just be _so_ much nicer if the threads would show up as 
> > subdirectories ie /proc/<tgid>/<tid>/xxx. More scalable, more readable, 
> > and just generally more sane.
> 
> It shouldn't even be all that much harder. You only really need to add the 
> "lookup()" and "readdir()" logic to the pid-fd's, and they both should be 
> fairly straightforward, ie something like the appended should do the 
> lookup() part.
> 
> (UNTESTED! NOT COMPILED! PROBABLY HORRIBLY BUGGY! CAVEAT USER! CONCEPTUAL 
> CODE ONLY! YOU GET THE IDEA! I'M GETTING HOARSE FROM ALL THE SHOUTING!)

It'd be a little (very little) more complex, but can I once again
suggest /proc/<tgid>/threads/<tid> instead of /proc/<tgid>/<tid>/xxx?


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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