Re: RFC [patch 00/34] PID Virtualization Overview

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 17:54:10 EST


On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 11:38 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> But, it seems that many drivers like to print out pids as a unique
> identifier for the task. Should we just let them print those
> potentially non-unique identifiers, deprecate and kill them, or provide
> a replacement with something else which is truly unique?

Pick a format for container number + pid and document/stick with it -
something like container::pid (eg 0::114) or 114[0] whatever so long as
it is consistent


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