From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Use getattr to get an accurate link count when needed.  This is cheaper and
more accurate than trying to derive it by walking the thread list of a
process.

Especially as it happens when needed stat instead of at readdir time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-fix-the-link-count-for-proc-pid-task fs/proc/base.c
--- devel/fs/proc/base.c~proc-fix-the-link-count-for-proc-pid-task	2006-02-27 20:58:55.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/fs/proc/base.c	2006-02-27 20:58:55.000000000 -0800
@@ -1518,6 +1518,7 @@ out:
 
 static int proc_task_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir);
 static struct dentry *proc_task_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd);
+static int proc_task_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat);
 
 static struct file_operations proc_fd_operations = {
 	.read		= generic_read_dir,
@@ -1538,6 +1539,7 @@ static struct inode_operations proc_fd_i
 
 static struct inode_operations proc_task_inode_operations = {
 	.lookup		= proc_task_lookup,
+	.getattr	= proc_task_getattr,
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
@@ -1644,7 +1646,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_pident_lookup
 	 */
 	switch(p->type) {
 		case PROC_TGID_TASK:
-			inode->i_nlink = 2 + get_tid_list(2, NULL, dir);
+			inode->i_nlink = 2;
 			inode->i_op = &proc_task_inode_operations;
 			inode->i_fop = &proc_task_operations;
 			break;
@@ -2245,7 +2247,6 @@ static int proc_task_readdir(struct file
 	}
 
 	nr_tids = get_tid_list(pos, tid_array, inode);
-	inode->i_nlink = pos + nr_tids;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_tids; i++) {
 		unsigned long j = PROC_NUMBUF;
@@ -2265,3 +2266,19 @@ out:
 	filp->f_pos = pos;
 	return retval;
 }
+
+static int proc_task_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	struct task_struct *p = proc_task(inode);
+	generic_fillattr(inode, stat);
+
+	if (pid_alive(p)) {
+		task_lock(p);
+		if (p->signal)
+			stat->nlink += atomic_read(&p->signal->count);
+		task_unlock(p);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
_