Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:55:18 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>,
       Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC [patch 13/34] PID Virtualization Define new task_pid api
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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?

thanks,

greg k-h
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