Re: Who changed /proc/<pid>/ in 2.6.0-test5-bk9?

[Ulrich Drepper]

Albert Cahalan wrote:

> To the user, maybe. To the admin, no. The admin uses
> fuser and/or lsof to find out why he can't umount.
> If those programs were thread-aware (they are not),
> then they could take many minutes to run.
> 
> In other words, stuff runs faster if we can ban this.
> If not, please suggest a way to make fuser and lsof fast.

Don't you see the flaw in your argumentation?

If lsof/fuser don't always handle this situation correctly you provide a
way for some ill-minded person to hide file descriptors from the view of
sysadmins etc.  You in any case have to handle this case.


It should be possible for a program to easily check whether

  /proc/PID/fd
and
  /proc/self/fd

are the same directory.  If not, add support for that.  Then those
programs only need to iterate over the fd directories and check whether
they are the same.

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