Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:35:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Testing for validity of task_struct ptr |
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Greetings,
If I am to cache a pointer to current, say, at some stage of my driver (after a kernel_thread, for instance), and then at a later time want to check to see if that process still exists before I do something like modify it, is there a way short of locking and walking the task list?
This is in 2.2.
thanks, -bp -- # bryan at terran dot org # http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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