Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:46:19 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john@johnmccutchan.com, arnd@arndb.de, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, hch@lst.de,
       rlove@rlove.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, davidn@davidnewall.com,
       Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:38:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> That means that the code delivers non-unique process identifiers to
> userspace.  A client gets pid=42 but there are seven processes on the
> machine with that pid.  Problem.

Because of namespaces I suppose? This is not a problem for those who
run in the same namespace, otherwise we can add nsproxy ID if needed for
anyone.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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