> > Many of the interesting places that deal with pids and where you
> > want translation are not where the values are read from current->pid,
> > but where the values are passed between functions. Think about
> > the return value of do_fork.
>
> Exactly. The next phase will focus on such places. Hubertus has some
> stuff working that's probably not ready for LKML, but could certainly be
> shared.
>
hmm wonder if it's not just a lot simpler to introduce a split in
"kernel pid" and "userspace pid", and have current->pid and
current->user_pid for that.
Using accessor macros doesn't sound like it gains much here.. (but then
I've not seen the full picture and you have)
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