Re: linux-proc readlink patch

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot 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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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