On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 02:58 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> On Maw, 2006-01-24 at 12:26 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > There is at least NFS lockd that appreciates having a single integer > >> > per process unique identifier. So there is a practical basis for > >> > wanting such a thing. The NFS lock manager mainly wants a unique 32-bit identifier that can follow clone(CLONE_FILES). The reason is that the Linux VFS is forced to use the pointer to the file table as the "process identifier" for posix locks (i.e. fcntl() locks). Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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