Re: [RFC] procfs has run out of inode numbers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
26 Jun 2000 17:36:05 -0700

Followup to: <3957ABA6.C89CE8D1@colorfullife.com>
By author: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> AFAICS we can either
> * hash all entries in proc, and use iunique.
> * return duplicate inode numbers. It only affects the /proc/<pid> part
> of procfs, but perhaps some apps rely on unique inode numbers.
>
> I'd prefer the second option, but which apps will break?
>

The second option would also make it very easy to MIB-ify /proc/sys.
That way we would use the inode field to report the MIB numbers. It
would be very clean: "ls -li" could be used to get the numeric
equivalents.

-hpa

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