Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net

From: Denys Vlasenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:04:03 +0100

On Sunday 23 March 2008 14:00, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > The proposed fix is to turn /proc/net into a symlink, which points
> > to /proc/self/net, which in turn shows what previously was in
> > /proc/net - the network-related info, from the net namespace the
> > appropriate task lives in.
> > 
> > # ls -l /proc/net
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Mar  5 15:17 /proc/net -> self/net
> 
> This broke tools which read /proc/net/dev. Under non-root,
> they are no longer working. This is a regression.

I see that this is already reported & fix is in queue.

Sorry for the noise.
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vda