Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm()

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:28:56 -0500
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:28:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:44:16 -0800 (PST)
> > > > From current you can just dereference current->comm, and access from
> > > > other threads from drivers is a bad idea.
> > 
> > You need to take the locks for it - which get_task_comm encapsulates.
> 
> Not for current->comm, which is the only thing it cares about.

Which is a detail you really don't want to leak out of the proper
abstraction use. I really don't see why you are advocating bad
programming practice - everything else uses the abstraction properly,
this just happens to be the first modular case that wants to behave
properly.
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