proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
/proc/thread-self is derived from /proc/self. /proc/thread-self
points to the directory in proc containing information about the
current thread.
This funtionality has been missing for a long time, and is tricky to
implement in userspace as gettid() is not exported by glibc. More
importantly this allows fixing defects in /proc/mounts and /proc/net
where in a threaded application today they wind up being empty files
when only the initial pthread has exited, causing problems for other
threads.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 7246ef3..1997ffc 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
struct vfsmount *proc_mnt;
struct dentry *proc_self;
+ struct dentry *proc_thread_self;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
struct bsd_acct_struct *bacct;