Re: [patch 1/4] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/childrenentry v8

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:54:53AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children
> > the task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse
> > parent->children chain from arbitrary <pid> (while a parent pid is
> > provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status).
> > [...]
> > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > +static int children_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
> > +{
> > +       struct inode *inode = seq->private;
> > +       pid_t pid;
> > +
> > +       pid = pid_nr_ns(v, inode->i_sb->s_fs_info);
> > +       return seq_printf(seq, " %d", pid);
> > +}
> 
> Does this mean the file contents always starts with a space? I think
> I'd prefer a trailing space than a leading one. Better yet, neither.
> :)
> 

Yeah, it there children, they will be in say " 1 2 3 4\n" format.
To drop this space completely i'll have to add more code, which I
actually trying to escape. Can we live with it? ;)

	Cyrill
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/