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    SubjectRe: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 2/7] UBC: core (structures, API)
    Matt Helsley wrote:
    > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:35 +0400, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
    >
    >>On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:31:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    >>
    >>>On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:53:40 +0400
    >>>Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>>>+struct user_beancounter
    >>>>>>+{
    >>>>>>+ atomic_t ub_refcount;
    >>>>>>+ spinlock_t ub_lock;
    >>>>>>+ uid_t ub_uid;
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>>Why uid? Will it be possible to club processes belonging to different
    >>>>>users to same bean counter.
    >>>>
    >>>>oh, its a misname. Should be ub_id. it is ID of user_beancounter
    >>>>and has nothing to do with user id.
    >>>
    >>>But it uses a uid_t. That's more than a misnaming?
    >>
    >>It used to be uid-related in ancient times when the notion of container
    >>hadn't formed up.
    >>"user" part of user_beancounter name has the same origin :)
    >
    >
    > Is it similarly irrelevant now? If so perhaps a big rename could be used
    > to make the names clearer (s/user_//, s/ub_/bc_/, ...).
    hm... let's try :)

    Kirill
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