Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755862AbYKISF3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:05:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754552AbYKISFU (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:05:20 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:38752 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbYKISFT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:05:19 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=BVdIwuJZNhD4ErUFH39M5BcZIqzQdTvCO15ZBU1WwJP22y5h6GHj3jPt+VR/Oxohl4 MEax/NQvErl5SIoI/36wd3psYV2cvYrasVV2vENQjYtfmLUWS4b1loFxf+jg8R2e6qKy N59r7+tl/MmqTnRKQgrWSdMnPV01TUN3X3FEI= Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 21:08:41 +0300 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ken Chen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [patch] add /proc/pid/stack to dump task's stack trace Message-ID: <20081109180841.GB3127@x200.localdomain> References: <20081106203520.GD3578@elte.hu> <20081107003021.GA18666@google.com> <20081107004824.GA28780@x200.localdomain> <20081107074147.GA26607@elte.hu> <20081107075925.GA1825@elte.hu> <20081107082003.GA15800@x200.localdomain> <20081107083249.GD4435@elte.hu> <20081108121054.GG8354@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081108121054.GG8354@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 13 On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:10:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Sidenote: it would still be nice if the procfs folks converted the > old-style code there to the new seqfile APIs, before requiring > everyone _else_ to follow those guidelines? For every existing non seqfile /proc file, there may be (and was demonstrated) some userspace which is doing pread(2) on it and seqfiles don't support pread currently. Obviously, no such userspace exist for /proc/*/stack. -- 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/