Re: [PATCH 1/1] posix-timers: Show clock ID in proc file

From: Pavel Emelyanov
Date: Fri May 17 2013 - 12:13:05 EST


On 05/17/2013 07:59 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:12:03AM +0400, Pavel Tikhomirov wrote:
>> Expand information about posix-timers in /proc/<pid>/timers by adding
>> info about clock, with which the timer was created. I.e. in the forth
>> line of timer info after "notify:" line go "ClockID: <clock_id>".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <snorcht@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/proc/base.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
>> index 2dad4a9..8a38eef 100644
>> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
>> @@ -2079,6 +2079,7 @@ static int show_timer(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>> nstr[notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID],
>> (notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID) ? "tid" : "pid",
>> pid_nr_ns(timer->it_pid, tp->ns));
>> + seq_printf(m, "ClockID: %d\n", timer->it_clock);
>
> What userspace tool just broke by adding a new field to this file?

Zero for two reasons:

1. this proc file appeared this merge window
2. this file format is

<name>: <value>

and should be parsed line-by-line by applications like e.g. /proc/pid/status
or /proc/pid/smaps. Both these files were extended with fields in the past with
no worries to tools, so should be this new one.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
> .
>


Thanks,
Pavel
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