Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/12] tty layer and misc struct pid conversions | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:54:54 -0700 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:03:39 -0700 > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> The aim of this patch set is to start wrapping up the struct pid >> conversions. > > hm, it touches a lot of tricky code which few people are familar > with. Worried.
Reasonable concern. The good thing is that the only big change was that struct pid is reference counted while old style pids are not. Which means that most of the pieces are simple substitutions. Although I admit checking that the reference is correct especially in the tty layer is tricky.
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