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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: Who changed /proc/<pid>/ in 2.6.0-test5-bk9?
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In article <3F7B9CF9.4040706@redhat.com>,
Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
>Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> I think /proc/self most likely _should_ point into the thread, not the 
>> task. 
>
>As much as I want to not see this, I fear I have to agree.
>
>There is, for instance, no guarantee that all CLONE_THREAD clones also
>have CLONE_FILES set.  Then using /proc/self/%d for some thread-local
>file descriptor will return the process group leaders file descriptor,
>not the own.

How about use /proc/self/task/self/fd/%d if /proc/self/task/self
exists, /proc/self/fd/%d otherwise ?

Mike.