Re: RFC [patch 13/34] PID Virtualization Define new task_pid api

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 11:21:51 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:25:14AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >
> > Arjan had a very good point last time we posted these: we should
> > consider getting rid of as many places in the kernel where pids are used
> > to uniquely identify tasks, and just stick with task_struct pointers.
>
> That's a very good idea, why didn't you do that?

Because we were being stupid and shoudn't have posted this massive set
of patches to LKML again before addressing the comments we got last
time, or doing _anything_ new with them.

-- Dave

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