Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751004AbWIICj6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:39:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751032AbWIICj6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:39:58 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:26509 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751000AbWIICj5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:39:57 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , containers@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch -mm] update mq_notify to use a struct pid References: <45019CC3.2030709@fr.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:39:05 -0600 In-Reply-To: <45019CC3.2030709@fr.ibm.com> (Cedric Le Goater's message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:39:31 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) 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: 796 Lines: 24 Cedric Le Goater writes: > message queues can signal a process waiting for a message. > > this patch replaces the pid_t value with a struct pid to avoid pid wrap > around problems. > > Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater > Cc: Eric Biederman > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: containers@lists.osdl.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman I was just about to send out this patch in a couple more hours. So expect the fact we wrote the same code is a good sign :) 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/