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Re: linux-proc readlink patch
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: drow at mvista dot com, kevinb at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, msnyder at redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:56:04 -0600
- Subject: Re: linux-proc readlink patch
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> The link was 'magic' - its text was something along the lines of a
> device and inode number, I believe. It's not worth worrying about
> unless someone actually reports it broken, I think.
I'm getting a nostalgia rush.
My recollection is the same as Daniel's. /proc/$pid/exe has been a
symlink for a long time, since 1996 or so. And it's been usable all
that time if you just open up the file and use it.
The original name was indeed "device:inode" which was unusable. I don't
know when the transitition to a real file name took place. The last
two stable versions of the kernel (2.2 and 2.4) have real file names
instead of "device:inode" and I feel comfortable relying on a feature
that is in the past two major versions.
Michael C