Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751093AbWATRBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:01:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751094AbWATRBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:01:46 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:44234 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751093AbWATRBp (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:01:45 -0500 To: Dave Hansen Cc: Greg KH , Alan Cox , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hubertus Franke , Cedric Le Goater Subject: Re: RFC [patch 13/34] PID Virtualization Define new task_pid api References: <20060117143258.150807000@sergelap> <20060117143326.283450000@sergelap> <1137511972.3005.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060117155600.GF20632@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <1137513818.14135.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1137518714.5526.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060118045518.GB7292@kroah.com> <1137601395.7850.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:00:13 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1137601395.7850.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Dave Hansen's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:23:15 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 27 Dave Hansen 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. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/