[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] Do not set /proc inode->pid for non-pid-related inodes

[Eric W. Biederman]

Dave Hansen <hansendc at us.ibm.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 09:33 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I still prefer that we forego that kthread, and just work toward
>> allowing pid1 to exit.  Really I think the crufty /proc/<pid> handling
>> is the only reason we were going to punt on that for now. 
>
> It's everything _but_ the /proc/<pid> stuff.  /proc/{mem,cpu}info and
> friends are the ones suspiciously tied to pid 1.

The files and directories affected by the oddity you spotted are:
/proc/
/proc/self
/proc/<pid>

That is the complete list.

Only /proc/self and /proc/<pid> Actually test for the presence of pid == 1.

Eric
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