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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 11:18 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> /proc/<pid>/fd/...
> /proc/<pid>/exe
> /proc/<pid>/cwd
> 
> It isn't quite the same as you are actually opening a second
> copy of the file descriptor but the essence is the same. 

Last I checked, those were symlinks and didn't work for things like
deleted files.  Am I wrong?

-- Dave