From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: linux-proc readlink patch
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109181030.B6397@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C3CC1CD.798D57DB@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:18:53PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Nope, that's not the semantics. Cleanups are always done, no later than
> when the command is finished executing (if not earlier). I even checked
> to make sure that these were done. There's no memory leak.
Well, the comments in utils.c are wrong, then :)
> > (2) It is not, IIRC, always correct in the case of chroots. Handling for
> > this has changed across Linux versions several times. On 2.2 it seems to be
> > correct (to my surprise, actually), but I believe it is not on 2.0. Do we
> > care? Probably not, as 2.0 is now -very- old.
>
> Well, if it fails, the code falls back to using the original /proc name.
By fails, I meant that the output of readlink was not useful. But I
don't think this is a concern.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 12:15 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-09 12:51 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-09 14:24 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-09 15:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-01-09 15:40 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-01-09 15:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-10 7:56 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-01-10 9:32 ` Michael Snyder
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