Re: [PATCH 2.6.13.1] Patch for invisible threads

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:10:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > get it from some other thread? Below is the patch I tried for this:
 
> I don't think this is wrong per se, but you shouldn't take the tasklist 
> lock normally. You're better off just doing

Could you exlain why we might want to bother with that in the first place?
In any case, why would we want to put that stuff on the common codepath
instead of specialized ->permission()?
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