linux-kernel - Re: [patch -mm] update mq_notify to use a struct pid

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Date:	Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:39:05 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm] update mq_notify to use a struct pid

Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com> writes:

> message queues can signal a process waiting for a message.
>
> this patch replaces the pid_t value with a struct pid to avoid pid wrap
> around problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> Cc: containers@...ts.osdl.org

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

I was just about to send out this patch in a couple more hours.
So expect the fact we wrote the same code is a good sign :)


Eric
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