Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62

From: Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 02:38:38 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:22:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Al says that this cannot be done sanely, and is fraught with security
> > problems. I'd vote for it if it were possible. Al?
>
> I seriously doubt it. It's all exactly the same as the _current_
> /proc/<pid> stuff, it just shows up in a different place.

Well perhaps that was just Al's way of saying the current stuff is
broken too. I think we could get into trouble reparenting or exec'ing
really quickly though.

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