Re: lguest, Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[Avi Kivity]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> Remove export of __put_task_struct, and usage in lguest
>
> lguest takes a reference count of tasks for two reasons.  The first is
> bogus: the /dev/lguest close callback will be called before the task
> is destroyed anyway, so no need to take a reference on open.
>
>   

What about

 Open /dev/lguest
 transfer fd using SCM_RIGHTS (or clone()?)
 close fd in original task
 exit()

?

My feeling is that if you want to be bound to a task, not a file, you 
need to use syscalls, not ioctls.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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