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Subject:    Re: =?UTF-8?Q?st=5Fsize?= of a symlink
From:       Sam Varshavchik <mrsam () courier-mta ! com>
Date:       2012-07-23 21:53:45
Message-ID: cone.1343080425.420260.24471.1000 () monster ! email-scan ! com
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Jesper Juhl writes:

> Let's see what procfs reports:
>   [root@arch ~]# ls -l /proc/$$/exe
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 23 19:58 /proc/884/exe -> /bin/bash
> Doesn't seem quite right....

That's because it looks like a symlink, it feels like a symlink, but it's  
not really a symlink.

> So, from my point of view it looks like procfs is the one who has got it
> wrong.
> We should probably fix that (IMVHO).

If you remove a running process's executable, that "symlink" will now read  
"$filename (deleted)".

Surprisingly, you will be able to open(2) this alleged "symlink".



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