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Subject: Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x
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On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:35:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Because it turns the question what permissions a procfs file has into
> > a lottery game.  He only changes the incore inode owner and as soon as
> > the inode is reclaimed the old ones return.
> 
> procfs inodes aren't reclaimable.

WTF do you mean "not reclaimable"?  They do get freed under memory pressure
and recreated on later lookups.