[Utopic SRU] Fix unconditionally exchanging short filenames

Fri Nov 28 02:27:17 UTC 2014

On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 12:41 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1396907
> Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763831
> 
> A change in v3.15 broke the behaviour of /proc/$$/exe on rename.
> Debian fixed this by pulling in those two patches. Ben, in hindsight
> I could have directly pulled them from your kernel but at least I 
> believe we ended up with the exact same result. But a quick sanity
> check won't hurt.

Looks good to me.  Sorry I haven't sent the Debian patches in for
3.16-ckt already - I've been a bit busy with other things.

Ben.

> Right now the same problem exists in Vivid but when we switch over
> to v3.17+ this will go away anyway. So I won't bother that much there.
> The only other kernel affected would be v3.15 which I believe is not
> maintained by anybody. So I decicded to not submit this to @stable.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Q.  Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy?
A.  I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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