Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755161AbXLBEDH (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:03:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754119AbXLBECz (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:02:55 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:48669 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754110AbXLBECy (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:02:54 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Albert Cahalan" Cc: "Ingo Molnar" , "Guillaume Chazarain" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, oleg@tv-sign.ru, rjw@sisk.pl, roland@redhat.com, xemul@openvz.org, linux-kernel , "Ulrich Drepper" Subject: Re: + proc-fix-the-threaded-proc-self.patch added to -mm tree References: <200711262339.lAQNdNrw029057@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20071128014901.4b303954@inria.fr> <787b0d920711280141v463759efod86395c50c1b47c5@mail.gmail.com> <20071128104622.GB19694@elte.hu> <787b0d920711280947g418330faie5c96293102c3f05@mail.gmail.com> <787b0d920711292344y43c9bc1cs2505a800617ecf86@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:00:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <787b0d920711292344y43c9bc1cs2505a800617ecf86@mail.gmail.com> (Albert Cahalan's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:44:12 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 25 "Albert Cahalan" writes: >> >> >> This one is probably best: >> >> >> /proc/task -> 123/task/456 >> >> >> (with both numbers showing) >> >> > >> >> > this sounds good to me. If it's a symlink then there's not much other >> >> > choice because the thread PIDs do not even show up under /proc anymore. >> >> >> >> The name sounds good to me. >> >> I will see about writing the patch for this in a bit and sending >> it to Andrew. > > Nice. Actually I think I will call it /proc/current. That names seems to convey a little better what we are after. Eric -- 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/