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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:01:05 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink
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On Jan 23 2008 10:29, Matt Helsley wrote:
>
>For executables on the stackable MVFS filesystem the current procfs
>methods for implementing a task's exe symlink do not point to the
>correct file and applications relying on the symlink fail (see the
>java example below).

This reminds me of unoionfs - it also had this issue, but IIRC,
it eventually got solved. (Should now display /union/exe rather
than /lowerlevel/exe.) Unionfs developers should know more.

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