e 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Qޜ,x