Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763956AbXKTXg1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:36:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753016AbXKTXgN (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:36:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36522 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751150AbXKTXgM (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:36:12 -0500 Message-ID: <47436E7F.2060901@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:32:15 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland McGrath CC: Guillaume Chazarain , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , Pavel Emelyanov , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pavel Machek , kernel list , netdev Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3: find complains about /proc/net References: <20071119191000.GA1560@elf.ucw.cz> <200711192304.25087.rjw@sisk.pl> <4743026B.2020907@openvz.org> <20071120215914.GE24156@elte.hu> <20071120223559.GA6655@elte.hu> <20071120225457.B6E2D26F8BE@magilla.localdomain> <20071120230106.GD24380@elte.hu> <3d8471ca0711201506t6b2b88a0h9484f8a40a1f2e40@mail.gmail.com> <20071120232600.F1D2F26F8BE@magilla.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20071120232600.F1D2F26F8BE@magilla.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1241 Lines: 31 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roland McGrath wrote: > Oh, it seems it has indeed been that way for a very long time, so I was > mistaken. It still seems a little odd to me. Ulrich can say definitively > whether the kind of concern I mentioned really matters one way or the other > for glibc. glibc cannot survive (at least NPTL) if somebody uses funny CLONE_* flags to separate various pieces of information, e.g., file descriptors. So, all the information in each thread's /proc/self should be identical. When the information is not the same, the current semantics seems to be more useful. So I guess, no change is the way to go here. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHQ25/2ijCOnn/RHQRAmhhAJsHRF7FqO8DWwZ97gHxIO/i4Z1AAQCffCGa Q2J8kjthKbbNQf1USWMAw3Y= =xl/a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/