Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:35:25 +0400 | From | Andrey Savochkin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/7] UBC: core (structures, API) |
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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 :)
Now ub_id_t or something like that would be the most logical type.
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