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    Revert "vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc" · 7b2a69ba
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    Because it caused a chroot ttyname regression in 2.6.36.
    
    As of 2.6.36 ttyname does not work in a chroot.  It has already been
    reported that screen breaks, and for me this breaks an automated
    distribution testsuite, that I need to preserve the ability to run the
    existing binaries on for several more years.  glibc 2.11.3 which has a
    fix for this is not an option.
    
    The root cause of this breakage is:
    
        commit 8df9d1a4
    
    
        Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
        Date:   Tue Aug 10 11:41:41 2010 +0200
    
        vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc
    
        Prepend "(unreachable)" to path strings if the path is not reachable
        from the current root.
    
        Two places updated are
         - the return string from getcwd()
         - and symlinks under /proc/$PID.
    
        Other uses of d_path() are left unchanged (we know that some old
        software crashes if /proc/mounts is changed).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    
    So remove the nice sounding, but ultimately ill advised change to how
    /proc/fd symlinks work.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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