Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:13:12 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, hpa@zytor.com,
       Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
       Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs: fix the wrong usage of the deprecated
	task_pgrp_nr()
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On 01/23, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> But I think that for debug logging we should always report numbers that
> correspond to the object as it is seen in the global namespace as that
> is the most likely reference point someone examining debug logging will
> be working from.
>
> Oleg, what should be the recommended call to report that, instead of the
> task_pgrp_nr() call?

task_pgrp_nr_ns(tsk, &init_pid_ns) gives the same result. Except, if the
tsk has already exited it returns 0.


But, Ian, if you prefer to use task_pgrp_nr() - just use it. Personally,
I'd like to kill task_pgrp_nr(), but I can't "prove" it should die.

Oleg.

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