Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:48:51 +0400
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] file: Modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid.
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On 08/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 08/15, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg
> > to processes.   By tracking the destination processes
> > using struct pid instead of pid_t we make the interface
> > safe from all potential pid wrap around problems.
>
> ....
> 
> The second change is good (I'd say this is bugfix). It is
> not possible anymore to send the signal to not yet created
> processes via fcntl(F_SETOWN, last_pid + a_little), or hit
> a problem with pid re-use.

Damn, I read the patch but forgot to read the changelog :)
It clearly says "safe from all potential pid wrap around problems",
sorry.

Oleg.

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