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Eric W. Biederman 61a2878402 [PATCH] proc: Remove the hard coded inode numbers 
The hard coded inode numbers in proc currently limit its maintainability,
its flexibility, and what can be done with the rest of system.  /proc limits
pid-max to 32768 on 32 bit systems it limits fd-max to 32768 on all systems,
and placing the pid in the inode number really gets in the way of implementing
subdirectories of per process information.

Ever since people started adding to the middle of the file type enumeration we
haven't been maintaing the historical inode numbers, all we have really
succeeded in doing is keeping the pid in the proc inode number.  The pid is
already available in the directory name so no information is lost removing it
from the inode number.

So if something in user space cares if we remove the inode number from the
/proc inode it is almost certainly broken.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:24 -07:00
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array.c [PATCH] tty: stop the tty vanishing under procfs access 2006-09-29 09:18:16 -07:00
base.c [PATCH] proc: Remove the hard coded inode numbers 2006-10-02 07:57:24 -07:00
generic.c [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
inode-alloc.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
inode.c Mark /proc MS_NOSUID and MS_NOEXEC 2006-07-15 12:20:05 -07:00
internal.h [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU 2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
kcore.c [PATCH] Kcore elf note namesz field fix 2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
kmsg.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore) 2005-06-25 16:24:53 -07:00
mmu.c [PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunk 2005-05-17 07:59:10 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU 2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
proc_devtree.c [PATCH] powerpc: Cope with duplicate node & property names in /proc/device-tree 2006-03-28 16:45:23 +11:00
proc_misc.c [PATCH] Define struct pspace 2006-10-02 07:57:15 -07:00
proc_tty.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
root.c [PATCH] proc: give the root directory a task 2006-10-02 07:57:13 -07:00
task_mmu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place 2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
task_nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU 2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
vmcore.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00