Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Task references..

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jan 29, 2006, at 02:19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In the pid virtualization thread it was noticed that currently in  
> the kernel we have a variables that hold pids of processes or  
> process groups that we later intend to send signals to.
>
> It was suggest that we instead use pointers to struct task_struct  
> and reference count them to get around this problem.

Very nice!  I like the way you did this!  I didn't have time to go  
over it in much detail, but I approve of the general idea.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things,  
because that would also stop them from doing clever things.
  -- Doug Gwyn


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