From c6caeb7c4544608e8ae62731334661fc396c7f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:18:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] proc: fix the threaded /proc/self Long ago when the CLONE_THREAD support first went it someone thought it would be wise to point /proc/self at /proc/ instead of /proc/. Given that /proc/ can return information about a very different task (if enough things have been unshared) then our current process /proc/ seems blatantly wrong. So far I have yet to think up an example where the current behavior would be advantageous, and I can see several places where it is seriously non-intuitive. We may be stuck with the current broken behavior for backwards compatibility reasons but lets try fixing our ancient bug for the 2.6.25 time frame and see if anyone screams. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Guillaume Chazarain" Cc: "Pavel Emelyanov" Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed