Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC [patch 13/34] PID Virtualization Define new task_pid api | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:00:13 -0700 |
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Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:25:14AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: >> > >> > Arjan had a very good point last time we posted these: we should >> > consider getting rid of as many places in the kernel where pids are used >> > to uniquely identify tasks, and just stick with task_struct pointers. >> >> That's a very good idea, why didn't you do that? > > Because we were being stupid and shoudn't have posted this massive set > of patches to LKML again before addressing the comments we got last > time, or doing _anything_ new with them.
Actually a little progress has been made. I think the patch set continues to the point of usability this time or at least is close.
Although it feels like there are still some gaps when I read through it.
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