Re: procfs files vs symlink

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 08:10:44AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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> 
> > On Jan 12, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote
> >> 
> >> Where do you get the reference to the original inode? Try it...
> > 
> > I don't understand. My patch doesn't change the procfs behavior for non-linux
> > binaries so I can't see the problem.
> 
> Ah I did not understand that, sorry. Anyway it is fine then, although I would
> like to understand first why linux binaries break... Do they do readlink(2)
> unconditionally and then they don't handle the error condition?

Yes, I guess that's it, but I don't have the sources. I suspect they do this to
find the absolute path of the binary.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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