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

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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

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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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