Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 22:40:19 EST


On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 17:30 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This is small chance changing /proc/net and /proc/mounts will cause
> userspace regressions (although nothing has shown up in my testing) if
> that happens we can just point the change that moves them from
> /proc/self/... to /proc/thread-self/...

Isn't breaking userspace a no no, no matter what? At least some
util-linux programs makes use of both /proc/mounts and /proc/net.

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