1. 06 Dec, 2010 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      Revert "vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc" · 7b2a69ba
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      Because it caused a chroot ttyname regression in 2.6.36.
      
      As of 2.6.36 ttyname does not work in a chroot.  It has already been
      reported that screen breaks, and for me this breaks an automated
      distribution testsuite, that I need to preserve the ability to run the
      existing binaries on for several more years.  glibc 2.11.3 which has a
      fix for this is not an option.
      
      The root cause of this breakage is:
      
          commit 8df9d1a4
          Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
          Date:   Tue Aug 10 11:41:41 2010 +0200
      
          vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc
      
          Prepend "(unreachable)" to path strings if the path is not reachable
          from the current root.
      
          Two places updated are
           - the return string from getcwd()
           - and symlinks under /proc/$PID.
      
          Other uses of d_path() are left unchanged (we know that some old
          software crashes if /proc/mounts is changed).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      
      So remove the nice sounding, but ultimately ill advised change to how
      /proc/fd symlinks work.
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7b2a69ba
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