Re: [RFC] Imminent death of /proc/locks predicted; film at 11

From: kees (kees@schoen.nl)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 13:38:22 EST


Hi,

I believe if you really are hunting problems in apps that use locks
I would like to have such info available.

Kees

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

>
> Does anyone actually want /proc/locks to stay? The data structure
> which allows it to be generated is now only used by the code to print
> out /proc/locks. If it could be deleted, a lot of code and data pointers
> could go away. I don't think any program depends on its existance and
> it's a pretty ugly file anyway (exposing kernel pointers to userspace?
> looks like pure debug code).
>
> Speak now, or it shall be gone.
>
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