From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19532 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2002 17:32:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19135 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2002 17:32:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2002 17:32:11 -0000 Received: from telocity.telocity.com (taarna.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.102]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA03890; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:31:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C3DCF0B.6207@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:32:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain CC: drow@mvista.com, kevinb@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: linux-proc readlink patch References: <200201101556.JAA08179@duracef.shout.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00234.txt.bz2 Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > The link was 'magic' - its text was something along the lines of a > > device and inode number, I believe. It's not worth worrying about > > unless someone actually reports it broken, I think. > > I'm getting a nostalgia rush. > > My recollection is the same as Daniel's. /proc/$pid/exe has been a > symlink for a long time, since 1996 or so. And it's been usable all > that time if you just open up the file and use it. > > The original name was indeed "device:inode" which was unusable. I don't > know when the transitition to a real file name took place. The last > two stable versions of the kernel (2.2 and 2.4) have real file names > instead of "device:inode" and I feel comfortable relying on a feature > that is in the past two major versions. Whew! Thank you, Mr. History Buff! ;-)