Re: [patch] add /proc/pid/stack to dump task's stack trace

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:10:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Sidenote: it would still be nice if the procfs folks converted the 
> old-style code there to the new seqfile APIs, before requiring 
> everyone _else_ to follow those guidelines?

For every existing non seqfile /proc file, there may be (and was demonstrated)
some userspace which is doing pread(2) on it and seqfiles don't support pread
currently. Obviously, no such userspace exist for /proc/*/stack.
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