Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directoryv6

From: Nicholas Miell
Date: Thu Sep 01 2011 - 21:54:42 EST


On 08/31/2011 12:58 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This one behaves similarly to the /proc/<pid>/fd/ one - it contains symlinks
> one for each mapping with file, the name of a symlink is "vma->vm_start-vma->vm_end",
> the target is the file. Opening a symlink results in a file that point exactly
> to the same inode as them vma's one.
>
> For example the ls -l of some arbitrary /proc/<pid>/map_files/
>
> | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80403000-7f8f80404000 -> /lib64/libc-2.5.so
> | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f8061e000-7f8f80620000 -> /lib64/libselinux.so.1
> | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80826000-7f8f80827000 -> /lib64/libacl.so.1.1.0
> | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80a2f000-7f8f80a30000 -> /lib64/librt-2.5.so
> | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80a30000-7f8f80a4c000 -> /lib64/ld-2.5.so

This doesn't seem to fully export all the information passed to mmap(2)
-- it encompasses the addr, size, fd and (assuming the generated
symlink's permissions are accurate) prot parameters, but does nothing to
export the flags or offset parameters.

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