From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo on
Em Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:11:35AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng escreveu:
> Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> > On 06/15/2010 10:21 PM, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
> >> Introduce a filter function to skip "." and ".." directories when calculating
> >> tid number.
> >>
> >> +/* Skip "." and ".." directories */
> >> +static int filter(const struct dirent *dir)
> >> +{
> >> + if (dir->d_name[0] == '.')
> >> + return 0;
> >> + else
> >> + return 1;
> >
> > Is this safe? Can you _never_ have a d_name with a leading dot, like '
> > .hidden' ??
> > Admittedly I don't think it happens in the current procfs, but I'd want
> > to be careful regardless.
>
> Actually, we only care the numeral directories. So, even if there's a ".hidden",
> it's fine to filter out this directory. Just keep things simple here.

Agreed, applying to perf/core, thanks,

- Arnaldo
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