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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/12] tty layer and misc struct pid conversions
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:03:39 -0700
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> The aim of this patch set is to start wrapping up the struct pid
>> conversions.
>
> hm, it touches a lot of tricky code which few people are familar
> with. Worried.

Reasonable concern. The good thing is that the only big change was that
struct pid is reference counted while old style pids are not. Which
means that most of the pieces are simple substitutions. Although I admit
checking that the reference is correct especially in the tty layer
is tricky.

Eric
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