Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self

Bert Wesarg [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Eric W. Biederman [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that
solves a couple of problems.

shouldn't we keep the 'task' in the name, as it points into the 'task'
directory? And why not mimic the current 'self -> <id>' ideom under
/proc/<tgid>/task too and put a new 'self' link there:

$ ls -l /proc/self/task/self
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug  1 00:00 /proc/self/task/self -> 484

No particularly good reason.  

Mostly I picked thread-self as I could pick that out as a concept in the
code distinct from self and distinct from thread and it the
implementation was stratighforward.

Your approach requires a bit more symlink recursion than mine so it is
not my first choice.

I almost pointed it at just the sometimes invisible thread directory
directly under /proc so it would be a single number.  But that has the
issue that it you still get the process rollups in the numbers reported
by some of the proc files, which is undesirable.

Frankly I think it was a mistake by the nptl kernel code to have changed
the implementation of self.  But changing /proc/self to return the tid
at this point is more likely than not to beak applications so that I
have avoided.

Eric