The hard coded inode numbers in proc currently limit its maintainability,
its flexibility, and what can be done with the rest of system. /proc limits
pid-max to 32768 on 32 bit systems it limits fd-max to 32768 on all systems,
and placing the pid in the inode number really gets in the way of implementing
subdirectories of per process information.
Ever since people started adding to the middle of the file type enumeration we
haven't been maintaing the historical inode numbers, all we have really
succeeded in doing is keeping the pid in the proc inode number. The pid is
already available in the directory name so no information is lost removing it
from the inode number.
So if something in user space cares if we remove the inode number from the
/proc inode it is almost certainly broken.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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