Subject: Re: curproc in procfs
To: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/04/1999 12:34:15
> One really, really low priority one:
> Symbolic link ``curproc'' should be changed to set of ``curprocX'' links
> for MP systems and even ``curproc0'' for computers woth one CPU.
It's not clear that this is right; /proc/curproc refers to the process
making the open() call, so:
cat < /proc/curproc/foo
and
cat < /proc/$$/foo
should refer to the same object, and is still well-defined on an MP system..
- Bill