tree 3afabe64dedd7bf7d0f88f7612e5f468c8d55c1d
parent 488e5bc4560d0b510c1ddc451c51a6cc14e3a930
author Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 1202473115 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1202491344 -0800

proc: fix the threaded /proc/self

Long ago when the CLONE_THREAD support first went it someone thought it
would be wise to point /proc/self at /proc/<tgid> instead of /proc/<pid>.

Given that /proc/<tgid> can return information about a very different task
(if enough things have been unshared) then our current process /proc/<tgid>
seems blatantly wrong.  So far I have yet to think up an example where the
current behavior would be advantageous, and I can see several places where
it is seriously non-intuitive.

We may be stuck with the current broken behavior for backwards
compatibility reasons but lets try fixing our ancient bug for the 2.6.25
time frame and see if anyone screams.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Cc: "Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>