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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Task references..
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On Jan 29, 2006, at 02:19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In the pid virtualization thread it was noticed that currently in
> the kernel we have a variables that hold pids of processes or
> process groups that we later intend to send signals to.
>
> It was suggest that we instead use pointers to struct task_struct
> and reference count them to get around this problem.

Very nice! I like the way you did this! I didn't have time to go
over it in much detail, but I approve of the general idea. Thanks!

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things,
because that would also stop them from doing clever things.
-- Doug Gwyn


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