Re: [rfc 2/3] fs, proc: Introduce the Children: line in /proc/<pid>/status

[Pedro Alves]

On Friday 02 December 2011 14:17:08, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> O_O   OK, I was wrong, they do live there. But I consider this as bug.

You can't change that.  It'd break current gdb at least.

> Anyway -- my concern about unneeded memory overhead still stands.
> Even a simple find /proc will result in smth like
> 
> /proc/1
> /proc/1/children/2
> /proc/1/children/2/children/4
> /proc/1/children/2/children/4
> /proc/1/children/3
> /proc/1/children/3/children/5
> /proc/2
> /proc/2/children/4
> /proc/3
> /proc/3/children/5
> /proc/4
> /proc/5
> 
> Instead of
> 
> /proc/1
> /proc/2
> /proc/3
> /proc/4
> /proc/5
> 
> I.e. each task will be shown multiple times, which is not very fun, but memory exhaustive from my POV.

Now that is a good argument against hard linking.  But not if you make
the entries under children/ symlinks.  Then find doesn't recurse.  And
then 

$ find -L /proc/PID/

does recurse and give you the whole tree.  Which I'd say is
actually useful...

-- 
Pedro Alves
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