Re: [PATCH 1/3] Define and use symbolic names for important processes

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-08-29 12:28:34)
> Justus Winter, le Thu 29 Aug 2013 12:22:30 +0200, a écrit :
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-08-28 23:30:27)
> > > Applied this one, thanks.
> > 
> > This one as in the private header file?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I've come across an issue with the header being private. This means
> > that neither procfs (being maintained and compileable out-of-tree) nor
> > the glibc can use the symbolic names.
> 
> I'd be very reluctant to expose such kind of information statically.

Agreed, but

> Does procfs really need this information?

Kinda. main.c (main) reads:
>  opt_kernel_pid = 2;

Ugh.

> As for glibc, I know it needs
> it at least for reboot(), but I'd rather not give the information
> through a static macro.

This particular case could indeed be handled more elegantly by looking
up the port using /servers/startup as discussed somewhere (irc?).

Justus