Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751102AbWBFOgu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:36:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751097AbWBFOgu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:36:50 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:21908 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751096AbWBFOgs (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:36:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:36:42 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vserver@list.linux-vserver.org, Herbert Poetzl , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Alan Cox , Dave Hansen , Arjan van de Ven , Suleiman Souhlal , Hubertus Franke , Cedric Le Goater , Kyle Moffett , Pavel Machek , Greg KH , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Task references.. Message-ID: <20060206143642.GA11887@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 27 Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com): > > At the moment I am going to say thanks for the comments. > > So far no one has said hey this is what I have been looking for > and pid wrap around in the kernel is a very bad thing, thanks > for solving my problem. > > Currently this feels like overkill so I am going to shelve this > approach for now. Ok, then let me jump in belatedly and say I think this is a good thing, and it will solve a problem we all (involved in this thread) will face shortly. And kudos for (a) a very nice, clean patchset, and (b) solving the fowner/signal problem! I think this would be a very good thing to go in. thanks, -serge - 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/